Cloud Financial
Management for
the Humans

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What problem is FinOps Center Solving and what does it do?

The adoption of AWS has fundamentally altered the IT financial management, expense distribution, and fiscal responsibility practices for customers. As they continue to develop their partnership with AWS, clients need to rationalize their credits and discounts to the appropriate product group or line of business. While cost optimization remains a priority for numerous Cloud Centers of Excellence (CCoEs), achieving a balance between expenditure and budget, and maintaining spend accountability, extends beyond mere cost optimization.

We call this the FinOps 2 Speed Problem

FinOps Center is a purpose-built process application that enables the business and engineering constituents in customers’ CCoE to understand and act to control their cloud cost. This frees up specialists to concentrate on optimization.

FinOps 2 Speed Problem

Business / Finance / Product Leaders

Financial Scope Aligned Visibility / Account Onboarding
Accountability via Processes (Budgets / Period Spending)
Credit Management / AWS Program Management
Spend Baseline
Buying Agreement Management
Integration ( Core Financials / FP&A)
In Billing Cycle Spend Approvals, Disputes, and Resolutions
Mode 1:

Spend/Bill Approval Processing

80% in soft saving opportunity

  • arrowSkepticism of value due to lack of centralized source of truth
  • arrowCost of time on task (budget scheduling, spend approval & data transformation to core financial application) compared to “onprem” control systems
Platform Service
Mode 2:

Cost Optimization

30% in hard saving opportunity

  • arrowOver provisioning, idle resources
  • arrowMaximizing buying option

Bringing things together

AWS programs

Credits Calculator

Credits Calculator

AWS Migration Hub MAP Funding

AWS Migration Hub MAP Funding

Buying Agreement

Buying Agreement

Cost and Usage

Cost and Usage

Governance Services

AWS Control Tower

AWS Control Tower

AWS Organizations

AWS Organizations

AWS Budget / Actions

AWS Budget / Actions

FinOps Center Logo

Financial System

Oracle

Oracle

Workday

Workday

Oracle NetSuite

Oracle NetSuite

IBM

IBM

Quickbooks

Quickbooks

SAP Ariba

SAP Ariba

ServiceNow

ServiceNow

Role/Scope Based Business Intelligence

quicksight

Amazon
QuickSight

CUDOS
Cloud intelligence Dashboard
TAO
Trends
KPI

Key Cloud Financial Management Processes

Chart of Account / Project Level Cloud Spending Mapping “Record to Report”
In Month Spend Cycle Approval
Monthly Spend Scheduling with Approval/Validation & Controls For Cloud Spending
AWS Credit Alignment
AWS Account Vending Onboarding & Remapping  to Finance
User to Spending Scope Onboarding with Rollup/Hierarchy
AWS Calculator to Budget Alignment
Integrate Spending to Account Payable “Procure to Pay”
AWS Spending Program Management
FP&A Integration for Business KPI
BI Row Level Security 
Spend Type Configuration

What FinOps Center Does

Business User Friendly UI outside of Console

Core Financial Chart of Account Integration

Integrated with Identity Providers for Personalized Role-Based Experience / Responsibility

Integrated with Cost & Usage (s)

Credit Management to Products

Reporting & BI Connectivity CUDOS/CID

AP & FP&A File Integration

Integrated with AWS Organization (s) for Account Vending / Multi-Account Strategy

Serverless Private Cloud Deployment

Product Level Budgeting Workflow

Spend Card for Weekly Responsibility & Invoice Approvals

Spend Spaces for Calculator Collaboration for Baseline Spend

Future AWS Program Management EDP/MAP

How it Works

AWS Marketplace

AWS Marketplace

AMI

AMI

EC2

EC2

Role

Role

S3

S3

FinOps Center

FinOps Center

CloudFormation

CloudFormation

Customer Master Payer

title

Account Management API

title

Platform API

title

S3

title

Cost & Usage Report

title

Route 53

Cloud Operations (Designated Admin)

Cognito

Cognito

CloudFront

CloudFront

Cetificate Manager

Cetificate Manager

Virtual private cloud (VPC) Security Group

EndPoints

EndPoints

Amazon QuickSight

Amazon QuickSight

Amazon Athena

Amazon Athena

AppSync

AppSync

DynamoDB

DynamoDB

AWS Step Functions

AWS Step Functions

S3

S3

React

React

NodeJS

NodeJS

SNS

SNS

Lambda

Lambda

Unanimous Embedding

Unanimous Embedding

Plans

Select the plan that best suits your team.

FinOps Center “FinOps In-a-Box” Hourly

Free trial
$.99/hr *

  • Full Features
  • 10 Accounts
Try Now* Each installation/update requires ~10Mins of billable EC2 aligned to hourly fees. Estimate $83 per installation/update

FinOps Center “FinOps In-a-Box”

Year 1 $12,500 *

  • Full Features
  • 25 Accounts
Buy Now* Via AWS Marketplace Special Offer

FinOps Center Enterprise

$85k Annual

  • Full Features
  • Unlimited Accounts
Buy Now