FinOps
Make cloud spending a first-class engineering concern.
FinOps is the practice of bringing financial accountability to cloud spending. It’s not about spending less — it’s about spending wisely. Every dollar saved on idle resources is a dollar that can fund new features, better infrastructure, or higher salaries.
Modules
Section titled “Modules”| # | Module | Time | What You’ll Learn |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1.1 | FinOps Fundamentals & The Cloud Bill | 1.5h | Inform/Optimize/Operate lifecycle, billing concepts, tagging |
| 1.2 | Kubernetes Cost Allocation | 2.5h | Kubecost/OpenCost, showback/chargeback, multi-tenant costs |
| 1.3 | Workload Rightsizing | 2.5h | VPA recommendations, HPA tuning, QoS for cost |
| 1.4 | Cluster Scaling & Compute | 3h | Karpenter, Spot instances, bin-packing, ARM migration |
| 1.5 | Storage & Network Costs | 2h | Orphaned volumes, cross-AZ costs, S3 tiering |
| 1.6 | FinOps Culture & Automation | 2h | Infracost in CI/CD, anomaly detection, engineering-finance bridge |
Total time: ~13.5 hours
Prerequisites
Section titled “Prerequisites”- Basic cloud concepts (any provider)
- Kubernetes basics (resource requests/limits)