What is Cloud Financial Management?
Cloud Financial Management — sometimes known as FinOps or Cloud Cost Management — is a function that helps align and develop financial goals, drive a cost-conscious culture through best practices, establish guardrails to meet financial targets, and gain greater business efficiencies.
Learn how to build a successful cloud financial management practice.
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VMware Aria Cost powered by CloudHealth is VMware’s dedicated FinOps solution and First Premier Member of the FinOps Foundation.
Benefits of Cloud Financial Management
Explore all the ways your organization can gain from cloud financial management practices.
Benefits of Cloud Financial Management
Explore all the ways your organization can gain from cloud financial management practices.
Cloud Cost Visibility
With granular visibility into all your cloud environments, understand which departments, teams, projects, or applications are accountable for driving cloud cost and usage. Hold them accountable using chargeback and showback, and track consumption patterns over time to accurately forecast future budgets and reduce miscalculations.
Optimize Cloud Costs
Quickly identify opportunities to reduce wasted spend with custom rightsizing recommendations built with your workloads in mind and terminate unused assets for greater efficiency. Manage commitment-based discounts (e.g., Reservations and Savings Plans) throughout their lifecycle to maximize savings using VMware Aria Cost powered by CloudHealth purchase modeling, optimization, and amortization capabilities.
Govern Spending
Ensure lines of business are complying with budget guidelines by proactively alerting stakeholders when cost centers are forecasted to exceed predefined budgets or spending anomalies are detected. Use VMware Aria Cost powered by CloudHealth’s dynamic policy engine to automate cost control measures by building governance policies that monitor your environment for opportunities to reduce wasted spend.
Financial Accountability
Easily align cloud financial data to strategic business metrics and KPIs such as gross margins and cost of goods sold to establish common goals across your organization. Collaborate on best practices across various teams to standardize operating in the cloud.
eBook: Cloud FinOps, Second Edition
Together with CloudHealth, we are producing impressive business results. CloudHealth is a tool that’s very complimentary to FinOps—they can’t exist without one another.
— Jean-Jacques Morris, FinOps Manager, CCoE, Thales DIS
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