The practice of bringing financial accountability to the variable spend model of cloud computing and AI infrastructure.
FinOps (Financial Operations) is a management practice that promotes shared responsibility for an organization's cloud and computing infrastructure costs.
As enterprises scale their data architecture and run intensive workloads like model inference, cloud costs can grow quickly. FinOps brings IT, finance, and business teams together to manage those costs without giving up performance.
FinOps control boundaries give organizations a basis for deciding when public cloud is more cost-effective and when to repatriate workloads to on-premises servers.
See also Model Inference, Control Boundaries, On-Premises, Air-Gapped Environment, Role-Based Access Control and Zero Trust Architecture.