FinOps

The FinOps module provides cloud cost visibility, optimization, budgeting, and forecasting across connected enterprise accounts. Cost data is collected daily at per-resource granularity, reconciled monthly after provider billing finalization, and exposed through account-level and organization-level dashboards.

Canonical provider, resource type, category, and FinOps tool terminology is tracked in the Provider and Resource Reference.

Provider Support

Supported

AWS
Azure

Unsupported

GCP
Docker Hub
GitHub
Ubuntu
Docker

What It Does

Capability	Detail
Cost	Ingests daily AWS and Azure cost records, normalizes them per resource, and reconciles finalized billing data monthly.
Forecast	Generates 12-month cost forecasts per account, region, and resource type.
Budget	Defines MCM-managed budget policies, evaluates actual and forecast spend, and tracks alert posture.
Recommendations	Captures provider-sourced right sizing, Savings Plan, and Reserved Instance opportunities.

Use Cases

Use Case	Outcome
Daily cost visibility	Teams can review yesterday's AWS and Azure spend by resource, region, category, and cost type.
Monthly billing reconciliation	Finalized provider billing data replaces provisional daily records after provider data closes.
Forecast planning	FinOps teams can inspect projected spend for the next 12 months.
Budget governance	Teams can set spend caps, thresholds, and scopes for providers, accounts, and tags.
Savings execution	Teams can prioritize provider recommendations by savings, effort, status, and term.

Data Pipeline

Job Schedule

Job	Schedule	Scope	Stored Result
Daily Cost Job	Daily	Previous day's AWS and Azure cost records	Cost records with `reconciled=false`.
Monthly Cost Job	9th of each month	Full previous month	Cost records updated with finalized billing and `reconciled=true`.
Forecast Job	Last day of each month	Next 12 months per account, region, and resource type	Forecast rows replace the previous monthly forecast set.
Recommendation Job	Provider-driven schedule	AWS and Azure optimization APIs	Recommendation rows with savings, effort, term, and workflow status.
Budget Job	After cost and forecast updates	Active budget scopes	Budget actuals, forecast posture, threshold state, and alert status.

Execution History

Execution history records are used to audit FinOps jobs and show operational health in the UI.

Field	Description
Job Type	Daily Cost Job, Monthly Cost Job, Forecast Job, Recommendation Job, or Budget Job.
Execution Time	Time when the job started.
Duration	Runtime for the job.
Trigger Type	Scheduled or manually triggered execution.
Triggered By	User or system actor that started the job.
Status	Success, Failed, or Partial
Error	Failure message or partial-completion note when applicable.

Page	Description
Cost	AWS CUR and Azure Cost Details ingestion, normalization, reconciliation, and stored cost fields.
Forecast	AWS and Azure forecast collection, schedule, API mapping, and stored forecast fields.
Budget	MCM-managed budget configuration, evaluation, alerting, and stored budget fields.
Recommendations	Provider API sourcing, recommendation types, workflow statuses, and stored recommendation fields.
Provider and Resource Reference	Canonical provider, resource type, module, and tool terminology.

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