Overview
FinOps is no longer the responsibility of a few SMEs but everybody in the organization. As customers decentralize the responsibility for AWS spending to the individual product teams and their management, core processes must be in place which FinOps Center provides. At month close, FinOps Center generates files for integration to Core Financial and FP&A Systems.
AWS FinOps Core Processes provided by FinOps Center:
- AWS Account Vending Onboarding & Remapping to Finance Chart of Account
- User to Spending Scope Onboarding with Hierarchy /Rollup
- Workload Estimates to Budget Alignment
- Workload Estimate with Resource Claiming
- Monthly Spend Scheduling with Approval/Validation
- Period/Weekly Spend Cards to Approve/Dispute Spending to Enforce in Billing Cycle Management
- AWS Credit Alignment to Financial Scope
- Integrate Spending to Account Payable- Procure to Pay
- AWS Spending Program Management for Vendor Management Teams
- FP&A Integration for Budget Accruals
- Amazon QuickSight Row Level Security & Dashboard Management
FinOps Center Roles & Responsibilities Roles have Daily/Weekly Tasks with some Roles having Admin tasks. All Roles View is limited to their individual Financial Scope. CCoE Daily/Weekly/Monthly Tasks
- View of Spending & Workload Estimates across the Organization
- Onboard AWS Accounts with Allocation
- Map Users to Budgets Scope
- Map AWS Accounts to Budgets
- Configure Alignment of Users to Budgets Scope
- Remap Allocation
- MAP Credits to Budgets
- Close Month and Run Final Cards
- Confirm AR Invoices match Cloud Bill
- Download File and Upload to Core Financials
- Validate that FP&A is Accurate
- Download File and Upload to Core Financials
Business Unit Executive Daily/Weekly/Monthly Tasks
- View of Spending & Workload Estimates within their Business Unit
- Validate that FP&A is Accurate and Download/Upload to Business Unit Core Financial (Optional)
Department Manager Daily/Weekly/Monthly Tasks
- View of Spending & Workload Estimates within their Department
Portfolio Owner Daily/Weekly/Monthly Tasks
- View of Spending & Workload Estimates within their Portfolio
- View/Recommend Resource Claiming/Tagging
- Approval/Rejection of Portfolio Products Monthly Budgets Planned Spend and Rescheduling
- Approval/Rejection/Resolution of Product Spend Cards
Product Owner Daily/Weekly Tasks
- View of spending within their Product(s)
- Approval/Rejection of Products Spend Cards
- Create/Rescheduling of Planned Monthly Budget Spend
- Add Tags for Programs Participation
- Create Workload Estimates with AWS Calculators
- Claim/Release Resource to Workload
Cloud Engineer Daily/Weekly/Monthly Tasks
- Add Users
- Vend new AWS Account and Initial Mapping (optional)
- Review Workload Estimates
- Claim/Release Resource to Workload Admin Tasks
- Deploy/Update FinOps Center
- Add/Modify Amazon QuickSight Dashboard Alignment
- Add Budget Files
Vendor Management Daily Weekly Tasks
- View of Spending & Workload Estimates across the Organization Admin Tasks
- Setup Pricebook and Pricing Agreements
Highlights
- AWS Spending is everybody's responsibility. FinOps Center provides customers business, product, finance, and engineering teams their Enterprise FinOps processes to increase accountability and decrease costs.
- AWS Cloud-Native Application installed inside customers AWS Estate and integrates with Cost Optimization Hub Data and QuickSight CUDOS Dashboards with RLS out-of-the-box.
- Install the FinOps Center Amazon Q Framework to provide Q&A for Business Users to assist with their AWS Spend awareness and savings recommendations.
Details
Features and programs
Financing for AWS Marketplace purchases
Pricing
Dimension | Description | Cost/12 months |
|---|---|---|
Annual | FinOps Center FinOps-In-a-Box Annual Term License | $25,000.00 |
Additional AWS infrastructure costs
Type | Cost |
|---|---|
EBS General Purpose SSD (gp2) volumes | $0.10/per GB/month of provisioned storage |
Vendor refund policy
No Refunds
Legal
Vendor terms and conditions
Content disclaimer
Delivery details
64-bit (x86) Amazon Machine Image (AMI)
Amazon Machine Image (AMI)
An AMI is a virtual image that provides the information required to launch an instance. Amazon EC2 (Elastic Compute Cloud) instances are virtual servers on which you can run your applications and workloads, offering varying combinations of CPU, memory, storage, and networking resources. You can launch as many instances from as many different AMIs as you need.
Version release notes
Additional details
Usage instructions
Installation of FinOps Center has 3 steps. • Step 1 is the configurations of services in customers’ AWS Estate and the setup of the “CloudOps” account as documented in https://docs.finopscenter.com/en_US/installation . Once these pre-requisites are complete, customers will install their FinOps Center subscription from the Marketplace. • Step 2 is subscripting to the software, Customers will select Configure the software from Amazon Machine Image in the drops down and continue through the following page selecting the version and region which you would like to install. On the Launch this Software screen, Select Launch through EC2. Prior to Launching AMI we recommend navigating to IAM in the account and create the IAM role documented on https://docs.finopscenter.com/en_US/aws-marketplace-installation/ami-configuration-and-stack-launch to be used when launching the instance. As the EC2 instance comes online, navigate to S3 and wait for the bucket – cdk – hnb659fds-assets--us-east-1 to appear. • Step 3 is Launching the Cloud Formation Template and Completing the Parameters. From the cdk S3 navigate to the FinOpsCenterStack.template.json and copy the Object URL. Navigate back to Subscription Management Screen and launch the CloudFormation Script (Object URL) to configure your FinOps Center with the Parameters for your environment following the instructions at https://docs.finopscenter.com/en_US/aws-marketplace-installation/stack-configuration .
Resources
Vendor resources
Support
Vendor support
Please allow 24 hours
AWS infrastructure support
AWS Support is a one-on-one, fast-response support channel that is staffed 24x7x365 with experienced and technical support engineers. The service helps customers of all sizes and technical abilities to successfully utilize the products and features provided by Amazon Web Services.
Similar products
