Who this book is for

Business, technology, and finance leads will inevitably become involved with FinOps in some way, shape, or form. A thoughtful software architect aims to learn as much of the business domain as possible to ensure that the technology being built supports the goals of the business. Similarly, any person concerned with lowering the variable costs of cloud resources will benefit from the themes and concepts presented in this book.

C-level executives will benefit by learning how they can help shape lean cloud operations to lower costs for the aggregate business. Line-of-business leaders will benefit by learning techniques they can employ within their teams to ensure they are maximizing the value of the cloud.

Technologists can apply the practices within this book to architect their cloud workloads in the more optimal way. Developers can benefit by gaining an understanding of how their deployment decisions impact the bottom-line. However, DevOps and infrastructure engineers will benefit more, as the book will help uncover tactics to lower costs.

Those in financial planning and analysis will benefit by gaining knowledge behind the technology that drives the cloud. These people offer a different perspective from technologists. Observing cloud operations through a financial lens will help technologists see new and optimal ways to build on the cloud.