FinOps Foundations for Cloud Teams

The cloud bill doubled. Nobody warned you. Finance cannot read it. Engineering says the bill is finance's problem. And the CFO wants an answer by Friday.FinOps is the practice that fixes this - but every existing book on it reads like an association whitepaper. This is the plain-English version. Written for the IT lead, engineering manager, finance business partner, or CFO who needs the vocabulary, the mental model, and a working plan in a week.Follow the fictional Alderline FinOps Advisory cast through ten chapters that build the practice from zero:* Why your cloud bill doubled - the invisible line item, why neither side can fix it alone* Speaking FinOps fluently - the working vocabulary, showback vs chargeback, unit economics* How compute actually bills - instance families, containers, serverless, three ways to run the same workload* How storage actually bills - the ladder of tiers, snapshots, lifecycle policies, the forgotten warehouse* How network actually bills - the metered exit, cross-region fees, load balancers, edge caching* The FinOps framework, Part One - Inform and Optimize as habits, not phases* The FinOps framework, Part Two - Operate, the hard part, the monthly review, the weekly huddle* Shared accountability - the RACI that actually works, escalation without shame* Building the FinOps team - the smallest workable team, the maturity ladder* A first 90-day FinOps plan - a working three-month rolloutTen chapters. Vocabulary first, framework second, plan third. The plain-English FinOps foundation.