Getting started with FinOps on GCP Authors: Sam Moss, Kinjal Tanna, Tan-Minh Truong2 Contents Scope 4 FinOps overview 5 What is FinOps? 5 Why does FinOps matter? 6 When should FinOps be implemented? 7 Who is responsible for FinOps? 8 How does FinOps work? 9 FinOps cultural principles 10 The variable nature of cloud 11 Business-value based decision making 12 Accountability 13 Collaboration 14 Blamelessness 15 Democratization of data 16 Agility 17 The FinOps Central Team 18 FinOps Lifecycle 20 Inform 21 Allocate 22 Shared resources 22 Unlabeled projects/anomalies 22 Report KPI & cost 24 Defining key reporting requirements 24 Sourcing appropriate data 24 Tracking through reports 25 Maintaining and improving reporting 25 Forecast 26 Creating forecasts in GCP 26 23 Reviewing forecasts 27

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