1、 2022 Boston Consulting Group1Harnessing the Power of Cloud FinOpsNOVEMBER 07,2022 By Eric Lam,Daniel Pettibone,Pathik Sharma,Bruce Warner,Silvio Palumbo,Sam Liu,and Andy MoonCloud FinOps helps companies manage and get more value from their cloudspending.Getting it right requires robust change manag

2、ement.The cloud ignites digital transformation and growthbut oen the spark isdampened because of difficulties in one key area:managing cloud spending.For many companies,the link between their cloud investments and returns ismurky.Financial forecasting can be tricky,given the clouds variable spend mo

3、del.And because development teams are able to buy cloud resources on demand,it is 2022 Boston Consulting Group2not unusual for costs to become unmanageable.The result:Companies struggle tomove beyond proof of concept to operate at scale in the cloud.They are either notlaunching or are slow to launch

4、 important new use cases,particularly in artificialintelligence.It doesnt have to be this way.Over the past couple of years,a new approach tocloud spending has been gaining traction.Cloud FinOps,as the framework isknown,fosters financial accountability and transparency across an organization.Everyon

5、e takes ownership of their cloud spending,understanding exactly whattheyre spending and what theyre getting from that investment.But cloud FinOps is not a plug-and-play solution.It is a cultural shi that bringstechnology,finance,and business teams together to drive financial accountabilityand accele

6、rate business value realization through cloud transformation.Companies that are leaders in cloud FinOps dont simply acknowledge thesechangesthey fuel them.They understand that none of this works without robustchange management,practices that ingrain cloud FinOps in both the methods andmindset of the