FinOps · Editorial desk
Auris FinOps Desk
The FinOps Desk writes for the engineering and finance teams who share a cloud bill across AWS, Azure and Google Cloud. It sits inside Auris's FinOps practice, run by certified FinOps practitioners.
- Cutting cloud bills without slowing teams down
- Commitment discounts and rightsizing
- Showback, chargeback and ownership
- Running FinOps as a practice
An editorial team, not a single writer. How we write and check every article.
Articles
From the FinOps Desk.
- How often should you review cloud costs?Review cloud costs in layers: alerts daily, a short team check weekly, a finance close monthly. Why a monthly-only review is too late.
- What is rightsizing in cloud computing?Rightsizing means matching cloud resources to what workloads actually use. How AWS and Azure find oversized instances, and what to check before you resize.
- Showback or chargeback: how should you allocate cloud costs?Showback reports cloud costs to teams; chargeback bills them in the books. What the FinOps Foundation says, how to choose, and why tags decide both.
- Reserved Instances or Savings Plans: which should you buy?For most AWS compute, buy Savings Plans: AWS itself recommends them over Reserved Instances. Here is when each one fits, and what to do before you commit.
- How do you cut an AWS bill without hurting performance?Cut an AWS bill safely: stop paying for idle capacity, rightsize with measured data, then commit with Savings Plans. The order matters more than the tools.
- What is FinOps?FinOps is a practice that gets engineering, finance and business teams to manage cloud spend together. What it is, its three phases, and what it is not.