It’s always healthy to take a critical view of any new technology or approach, and cloud finops (financial operations) is no different. As we’re learning about what finops does well, we’re also learning about what needs to be worked on.
While some people will find a great deal of value from finops, mostly by doing things in more optimized ways, others will make common mistakes and cause finops to draw on more resources. Thus the business value that it was supposed to generate doesn’t materialize, or perhaps might even be negative. This is one of the biggest fears about finops.
