Embark in your cloud cost optimization journey with our carefully curated FinOps toolkit. Discover the best resources to learn about FinOps, connect with a thriving community, and access powerful tools to drive business value.
From insightful articles and podcasts to hands-on tools and expert advice, this toolkit provides everything you need to master FinOps and unlock the full potential of your cloud investments.
🧑🔧👨💻FinOps Communities
- Slack of the FinOps foundation : https://www.finops.org/community/community-slack/
- LinkedIn – Cloud FinOps Practitioners
- Reddit – r/FinOps
🎙 FinOps Podcast
- Jon Myer Podcast: Spotify
- The FinOps guys : https://whatsnewincloudfinops.buzzsprout.com/
- FinOps pod: https://www.finops.org/community/finops-podcast/
🧑🎓FinOps Certifications
- Finops foundation certifications:https://learn.finops.org
- FinOps certification guide : https://holori.com/finops-certification/
🎓FinOps Online courses
Udemy FinOps courses : https://www.udemy.com/topic/finops/
📚 FinOps Books
- Cloud FinOps by Mike Fuller : https://www.amazon.com/Cloud-FinOps-Collaborative-Real-Time-Management/dp/1492098353
💶 Third Party FinOps platform
- Holori is a self serve, modern and affordable Finops platform: https://app.holori.com/
- FinOps foundation listed many third party FinOps platform: https://www.finops.org/landscape/
🔧 Open source tools
- Opencost : Cost monitoring for Kubernetes workloads
- Cloud custodian : Cloud Custodian automates governance for AWS, Azure, and GCP, enforcing security, compliance, tag policies, cost management, and resource optimization in real-time with a policy-as-code approach.
- Infracost: See cloud cost estimate in Pull Request.
🧮 Cloud cost comparison tools
- Compare cloud compute prices across many cloud providers (Hyperscalers and alternative vendors) : https://app.holori.com/compare
- Compare cloud compute prices and performance across many cloud vendors: https://pcr.cloud-mercato.com/providers/flavors?provider=aws&compute=ec2&category=standard
- Compare EC2 instances: https://instances.vantage.sh/
- Compare Azure VM prices: https://cloudprice.net/
🎥 FinOps videos
- FinOps foundation youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/
- Azure FinOps ( Understanding what FinOps is and why we care) : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YHUptdFtozQ&t=1s
💼 FinOps job board
- Find a new Finops job: https://jobs.finops.org/
🔢 FinOps statistics
- Most interestings FinOps metrics are gathered by the FinOps foundation : https://data.finops.org
- Flexera state of cloud report: https://info.flexera.com/CM-REPORT-State-of-the-Cloud?lead_source=Organic%20Search
- Datadog state of cloud cost report: https://www.datadoghq.com/state-of-cloud-costs/
📖 FinOps glossary
- FinOps glossary summarized by Holori: https://holori.com/finops-glossary/
- FinOps glossary by FinOps Foundation: https://www.finops.org/assets/terminology/
🏄♂️ FinOps events
- Main FinOps event are organized by the FinOps foundation and are called FinOps X: https://x.finops.org/
👁 Cloud cost savings articles
- Cutting cloud cost by 99.9% when serving 128 TB data and 5 billion requests: https://medium.com/@dmosyan/cutting-cloud-cost-by-99-9-when-serving-128-tb-data-and-5-billion-requests-fb9515e9d555
- Reduced Cloud cost from 1M to 200k by moving away from AWS
https://levelup.gitconnected.com/how-we-reduced-our-annual-server-costs-by-80-from-1m-to-200k-by-moving-away-from-aws-2b98cbd21b46
- Not moving to AWS saved them 400M$ in 3 years
https://medium.com/ahrefs/how-ahrefs-saved-us-400m-in-3-years-by-not-going-to-the-cloud-8939dd930af8 - 37 signals moving away from AWS to save 7M€
https://37signals.com/podcast/leaving-the-cloud/
https://37signals.com/podcast/leaving-the-cloud-part-2/
https://world.hey.com/dhh/why-we-re-leaving-the-cloud-654b47e0
🔢 Native FinOps tools from provider
Native AWS FinOps tools
| Service | Link | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Cloud Cost Calculator | Link | A tool that helps you estimate the cost of AWS cloud services by allowing you to configure services and view pricing details based on your specific use case. |
| AWS Cost Explorer | Link | A cost management tool that enables you to visualize, understand, and manage your AWS costs and usage over time through customizable reports and filtering options. |
| AWS Compute Optimizer | Link | An optimization tool that provides actionable recommendations to help you improve your AWS resource configurations for better cost and performance. |
| AWS Cost Optimization Hub | Link | A centralized resource hub offering best practices, guides, and tools for optimizing AWS costs through effective management and usage recommendations. |
| AWS Workload Discovery | Link | A solution that helps visualize, discover, and understand the architecture and interdependencies of workloads deployed on AWS, assisting in cost management and optimization. |
| AWS Budgets | Link | A service that allows you to set custom cost and usage budgets for AWS services and receive alerts when usage exceeds or is forecasted to exceed the defined budget limits. |
| AWS Trusted Advisor | Link | A tool that provides real-time guidance to help you provision your AWS resources following best practices to optimize performance, security, fault tolerance, and cost. |
Native Azure FinOps tools
| Service | Link | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Azure Pricing Calculator | Link | A tool that helps you estimate the cost of Azure services by configuring various Azure products and viewing their pricing details based on your specific requirements. |
| Azure Cost Management and Billing | Link | A set of tools that enables you to monitor, allocate, and optimize cloud spending through budgeting, cost analysis, and recommendations for cost efficiency. |
| Azure Advisor | Link | A personalized cloud consultant that provides best practices recommendations for Azure resources to help optimize costs, improve performance, and enhance security. |
| Azure Resource Graph | Link | A service that allows you to explore and query your Azure resources at scale to gain insights, including cost optimization opportunities and resource usage analysis. |
GCP Native FinOps tools
| Service | Link | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Google Cloud Pricing Calculator | Link | A tool that allows you to estimate the cost of Google Cloud services by configuring resources and viewing detailed pricing information for your specific needs. |
| Google Cloud Cost Management | Link | A suite of tools that provides visibility into your cloud costs, enabling you to manage and optimize cloud spending through budgets, alerts, reports, and recommendations. |
| Recommenders | Link | A service that offers personalized, actionable recommendations to help optimize resource usage, reduce costs, and improve the performance of your Google Cloud resources. |
| Google Cloud Billing Reports | Link | A tool within Cloud Billing that allows you to visualize your cost and usage data over time, enabling you to analyze and understand spending trends and patterns. |
| Google Cloud FinOps Hub | Link | A centralized resource hub that provides best practices, tools, and guidance for optimizing cloud costs and improving overall cloud cost efficiency. |
| Google Cloud Billing Budgets and Alerts | Link | A tool that helps you set budgets for your Google Cloud projects and receive alerts when your spending exceeds predefined thresholds, helping manage and control costs. |
Wrap up : FinOps toolkit and learning material
This FinOps toolkit offers a comprehensive resource for navigating the world of cloud cost management. By leveraging these resources, you can gain the knowledge, tools, and community support needed to optimize your cloud spending and drive business value.
This FinOps toolkit is updated on a frequent basis. If there are articles, tools that can be useful for this toolkit, send me an email: alexandre@holori.com
