Intelligent FinOps in Azure

Leverage FinOps in Azure to optimize your cloud spend and drive accountability across your organization. With Microsoft Cost Management, gain complete visibility into your cloud costs, track spending by department or project, and forecast future expenses. Utilize management groups, subscriptions, and tags to organize costs and allocate resources efficiently, ensuring alignment with organizational priorities.
Make informed decisions with proactive cost reduction recommendations from Azure Advisor and architectural best practices like Azure Landing Zones. Operationalize FinOps practices with centralized management focus and continuous evaluation through the FinOps Review assessment.
Azure expert, Matt McSpirit, shows how to improve your organization's capability and operational agility with FinOps on Azure.
► QUICK LINKS:
00:00 - Improve control on Azure through FinOps
01:01 - Gain visibility and accountability over Cloud spend
02:11 - Track and report spending
03:28- How to track costs
04:14 - Tagging resources
05:57 - Optimized efficiency
07:02 - Maintain FinOps practices
08:05 - Wrap up
► Link References
How to implement FinOps on Azure at aka.ms/FinOps
Leverage Cloud Adoption Framework guidance at aka.ms/C-A-F-Tagging
Click-through demos at aka.ms/finops/guides
FinOps Review assessment at aka.ms/finops/review
Start using Microsoft Cost Management at aka.ms/CostManagement
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[@DavidPazdera]

Nice overview but with regards to some of the guidance: I wouldn't recommend using Management Groups for this purpose, according to CAF / Azure Landing Zone guidance, they should be used primarily for assigning policies and RBAC at scale (part of your Cloud governance model). Instead, it would be better to assign (link) subscriptions with different billing profiles or invoice sections. In this way, you could have different hierarchies for policies and cost management.

[@Drizzzit]

You do know that you already have one #FinOps named product? Dynamics 365 Finance and Operations anyone? You could ask the AI better names that are more clear to the rest of the world to differentiate your products... :)

[@tauntunicorn5]

FinOps is an industry term not one coined by Microsoft. Similar but different to F&O which would be Finance and Operations.

[@albertkwan4261]

You don't know what you are talking about.