FinOps: iterative visibility, improvement and operation

FinOps: iterative visibility, improvement and operation A workflow diagram generated by Archify. 01 / Inform 02 / Optimize 03 / Operate Tagging & Labels · label strategy · Inform Tagging & Labels label strategy Cost Allocation · namespace + label based · Inform Cost Allocation namespace + label based Showback Dashboards · team cost views · Inform Showback Dashboards team cost views Rightsizing · VPA + Goldilocks · Optimize Rightsizing VPA + Goldilocks Spot / Savings Plans · interruption and commitment fit · Optimize Spot / Savings Plans interruption and commitment fit Review Idle Candidates · ownership and recovery · Optimize Review Idle Candidates ownership and recovery Regular Reviews · weekly + monthly cadence · Operate Regular Reviews weekly + monthly cadence Policy Enforcement · Kyverno label rules · Operate Policy Enforcement Kyverno label rules Budget Alerts · anomaly alerts to Slack · Operate Budget Alerts anomaly alerts to Slack Rightsizing & Savings Governance & Automation Visibility & Allocation Legend Visibility & dashboards Engineering action Policy guardrail Alerting AWS pricing model Team cadence

Crawl

  • • Basic attribution and ownership
  • • Model costs with explicit periods and coverage

Walk

  • • Agreed shared and idle allocation
  • • Review recommendations alongside SLOs

Run

  • • Billing reconciliation and unit economics
  • • Automation with tests, approval and observation