Platform & DevOps·What the platform costs
engineering, finance and product look at the same spend numbers weekly, and the engineer who can change it is in the room.
FinOps
Also calledcloud financial management, cost engineering
The practice of making cloud spend a shared, continuous engineering concern rather than a quarterly finance surprise. Its central claim is that only the people who provision resources can change the bill, so visibility, attribution and accountability have to reach them. Its characteristic failure is becoming a reporting function that produces dashboards nobody with the ability to act ever reads.