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FinOps Center enables a Business-Owned Cloud with Cost Governance Processes, Platform Integration, and AI Agents to Lower Total Cost of Innovation on AWS.
FinOps-In-a-Box Hourly supports 10 AWS Accounts.
Overview
Cloud Financial Management is no longer the responsibility of a few Technical and Financial SMEs but a Business Function that requires active participation by the whole organization: Executives, Business Product Owners, Finance Teams, and Technical Stakeholders.
FinOps Center provides the Role-Based User Experience, Business Processes, and Operating Model with Integrations to AWS and Financial/ITSM Application to enable a Business-Owned Cloud.
Deployed with our AI Agent - “Agent Bill”- Users can better understand their allocated spending by Asking any question to Amazon Q in QuickSight to get a personalized embedded multi-visual response. Agent Bill’s Model Context Protocol(MCP) Server connects to Bedrock Agents Actions Groups and Orchestrations capabilities to provide superpowers to the FinOps Center Users. AWS Cloud Financial Management Core Processes provided by FinOps Center:
- AWS Account Vending Onboarding & Mapping/Remapping to Finance Chart of Account
- User to Spending Scope Onboarding with Rollup/Hierarchy
- Workload Estimates to Budget Alignment
- Workload Resource Claiming for 100% Allocation
- 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
- AWS Spending Program Management (Migration Acceleration Program / Private Pricing Agreement) for Vendor Management and Product Owners
AWS Cloud Financial Management Integrations
- "Bring Forward" of Approved Annual Budgets for AWS Spending from Enterprise Budgeting System
- FP&A Integration for Business KPI
- Integrate Spending to Account Payable - Procure to Pay
- Amazon Q/QuickSight Row Level Security & Dashboard/Topic Management
- Cost Optimization Accountability leveraging Cloud Optimization Hub Recommendations
FinOps Center Roles & Responsibilities Roles have Daily/Weekly Tasks with some Roles having Admin tasks. All Roles are dependent on their individual Financial Scope.
CCoE Daily/Weekly Tasks
- View of Spending & Workload Estimates across the Organization
- Configure Alignment of Users to Budgets Scope
- Onboard AWS Accounts to Initial Financial Budgets
- Remap Allocation
- Confirm AR Invoices match Cloud Bill
- Download File and Upload to Core Financials
- Validate that FP&A is Accurate
- Monitor Program Participation (MAP and Cost Optimizations)
Admin Tasks
- Map Users to Budgets Scope
- Map AWS Accounts to Budgets
- Close Month and Run Final Cards
Business Unit Executive Daily/Weekly Tasks
- View of Spending & Workload Estimates within their Business Unit
- Monitor Program Participation (MAP and Cost Optimizations)
- Validate that FP&A is Accurate and Download/Upload to Business Unit Core Financial (Optional)
Department Manager Daily/Weekly Tasks
- Monitor Program Participation (MAP and Cost Optimizations)
- View of Spending & Workload Estimates within their Department
Portfolio Owner Daily/Weekly 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
- Monitor Program Participation (MAP and Cost Optimizations)
- 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
- Monitor Program Participation (MAP and Cost Optimizations)
- Add Tags for Programs Participation
- Create Workload Estimates with AWS Calculators
- Claim/Release Resource to Workload
Cloud Engineer Daily Weekly Tasks
- Monitor Program Participation (MAP and Cost Optimizations)
- Execute Cost Optimization
- Add Users
- Review Workload Estimates
- Claim/Release Resource to Workload
- Add Tags for Program Participation
Admin Tasks
- Deploy/Update FinOps Center
- Add Users
- Vend new AWS Account and Initial Mapping (optional)
- Add/Modify Amazon QuickSight Dashboard/Topics Alignment
- Add Budget Files
Vendor Management Daily Weekly Tasks
- View of Spending & Workload Estimates across the Organization
- Monitor Program Participation (MAP and Cost Optimizations)
Admin Tasks
- Setup Pricebook and Pricing Agreements
- Onboard MAP Contracts
Highlights
- Cloud Financial Management is everybody’s responsibility, requiring business processes for management. FinOps Center with its AI Agent **Agent Bill** provides with their core processes to increase accountability/governance to decrease total costs.
- AWS Cloud-Native Application installed inside customers’ AWS Estate. FinOps Center Integrates with AWS Organization APIs for Account Onboarding, Cost Optimization Hub exports for Saving Recommendations, and Systems Manager for Resource Management.
- Agent Bill provides integrated Amazon Q in QuickSight them provides Q&A for Business Users, helping them with their AWS spending awareness and decisions. CUDOS Framework dashboards are also available for select roles.
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FinOps Center AWS Native Serverless Deployment
64-bit (x86) Amazon Machine Image (AMI)
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64-bit (x86) Amazon Machine Image (AMI)
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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 .
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Cloud Financial Management Platform
Comprehensive cloud cost governance solution with role-based user experience and integrated business processes
AI-Powered Cost Analytics
AI agent 'Agent Bill' leveraging Amazon Q and Bedrock Agents for personalized multi-visual spending insights
AWS Organizational Integration
Native integration with AWS Organization APIs for account onboarding, cost optimization, and resource management
Multi-Role Workflow Management
Defined daily/weekly tasks and responsibilities across different organizational roles including executives, managers, and engineers
Financial Systems Interoperability
Integrations with enterprise budgeting systems, FP&A, account payable, and cloud optimization platforms
Intelligent Agent Architecture
Context-aware AI agents specialized in performing complex cloud cost management tasks with targeted functionality
Natural Language Query Processing
Advanced natural language interface enabling cost insights, optimization analysis, and anomaly detection through conversational interactions
Cloud Cost Intelligence
Automated reporting, benchmarking, and governance mechanisms using specialized algorithmic approaches for comprehensive cloud spend analysis
Enterprise Compliance Framework
Multi-standard compliance support including SOC2, ISO:27001, and GDPR with agentless deployment architecture
Role-Based Cost Insights
Specialized cost intelligence and reporting tailored to different organizational roles including DevOps, Finance, and Leadership perspectives
Multi-Cloud Infrastructure Management
Provides unified governance and operations across AWS, Azure, GCP, and OCI cloud environments
Policy-Based Identity Control
Implements automated, granular access management with inheritable and configurable identity policies
Continuous Compliance Automation
Enables automated compliance monitoring and enforcement with robust policy restrictions and service usage controls
Cloud Resource Visibility
Offers comprehensive monitoring and tracking of cloud resources, users, and access configurations across multiple cloud platforms
Financial Operations Management
Supports budget alignment, cost control, and proactive identification of potential cost optimization opportunities
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