Ultimate FinOps For Azure Book
Ultimate FinOps for Azure is a comprehensive, hands-on guide designed to help professionals bring financial discipline and accountability into Azure environments.
Ultimate FinOps for Azure
Empower Your Cloud Journey with Expert FinOps Strategies for Microsoft Azure!
As cloud operations grow, controlling costs in Microsoft Azure is no longer optional, it's a strategic priority. FinOps is the discipline of cloud financial management, empowers engineering, finance, and operations teams to collaborate and drive greater business value.
Ultimate FinOps for Azure is a comprehensive, hands-on guide designed to help professionals bring financial discipline and accountability into Azure environments.
The book begins by laying the groundwork with core FinOps principles and explains how Azure’s unique pricing and consumption models impact cost management. From there, it walks you through every stage of the FinOps lifecycle: collecting and analyzing usage data, designing robust tagging strategies, allocating costs effectively, and generating actionable reports. You’ll explore how to leverage Azure-native tools such as Cost Management, Billing, Azure Advisor, and Kusto Query Language (KQL) to uncover inefficiencies and optimize spending in real time.
Table of Contents
1. Introduction to FinOps
2. Introduction to Microsoft Azure
3. Setting Up for Success
4. Data Collection and Analysis
5. Cost Allocation
6. Introduction to Tagging in Azure
7. Reporting
8. Identifying Cost Saving Opportunities
9. Automation and Governance
10. Continuous Improvement
11. Artificial Intelligence and FinOps
12. Appendix
Appendix 1 Unit Economics Examples
Appendix 2 Codes Compilation
Appendix 3 Glossary of Terms
Index
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Firstly, know that you are in good hands. Anderson Oliveira has been practicing FinOps for a long time, and brings deep expertise to the field.
Joe Daly
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Here is what you will learn from this book:
Understand the FinOps Lifecycle and how it fits within Azure environments.
Analyze Azure usage and billing data to uncover cost-savings insights
Implement scalable tagging and cost allocation strategies for clarity
Create impactful, real-time cost and usage reports with Azure tools and KQL.
Automate governance and optimize cloud spend with actionable policies.
Explore how AI and machine learning can forecast and enhance FinOps outcomes.
This book is tailored for FinOps professionals, cloud architects, IT leaders, finance teams, DevOps practitioners, and students aiming to master cost optimization on Microsoft Azure. It bridges technical and financial domains, equipping readers to drive accountability, efficiency and value in cloud investments.
No prior FinOps experience is required. We start with foundational concepts and build toward more advanced practices—perfect for beginners and intermediate learners alike.
The book include the following appendix, for quick consultation:
Appendix 1 Unit Economics Examples
Appendix 2 Codes Compilation
Appendix 3 Glossary of Terms
Regardless of if you are more technical or more business oriented, this book makes the bridge between the concepts of the framework to the practicality of how to implement them in Azure.
Any FinOps lead will be equipped with the necessary knowledge to discuss optimization, governance and cost tracking.
Any Business Leader will know how FinOps is applied on an Azure environment.
Any Technical will have the codes to make proper monitoring and generate customized reports.
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