Glossary
FinOps
The practice of making cloud spend visible, attributable and optimised-engineering and finance sharing ownership of cost decisions.
FinOps is not a dashboard product. It is tagging, showback, rightsizing, commitments and anomaly response with clear owners. Stratoworks° finds waste and installs guardrails without turning off security controls.
Cloud invoices grow opaque when nobody owns a line item: orphaned resources, oversized instances, missing lifecycle rules, unused discount programmes. FinOps repairs the organisational loop, not only the bill.
Practical FinOps starts with tagging and showback, then rightsizing, commitments where usage fits, and guardrails against obvious waste-without turning off encryption or audit logging.