Some devops teams wait to optimize their applications for cost considerations until reports and invoices show higher-than-expected charges, or when cloud costs scale faster than expected. Others carefully consider the cost to run and scale infrastructure during a project’s design and build phases. Some larger enterprises take it a step further, creating a finops role to guide the process and selection of their cloud architecture.
Centralizing cloud costs from public clouds and data center infrastructure is a key finops concern. The first thing finops does is to create a single-pane view of consumption, which enables cost forecasting.
