The practice of tracking and managing cloud and AI infrastructure spending, with engineering and finance teams sharing responsibility for the cost.
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 has engineers and finance staff manage that spending together, so cost and performance are weighed in the same decision.
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.