SKYXOPS & FinOps Foundation

How SKYXOPS supports FinOps best practices and the FinOps Foundation Framework

About FinOps Foundation

The FinOps Foundation is a Linux Foundation project with 100,000+ practitioners and participation from 96 of the Fortune 100. It defines FinOps as an operational framework and cultural practice which maximizes the business value of cloud through collaboration between engineering, finance, and business teams.

Key Contributions:

  • FinOps Framework with Domains and Capabilities
  • FOCUS (FinOps Open Cost & Usage Specification)
  • FinOps Certified Platform program
  • FinOps X annual conference
  • Practitioner certifications and training

SKYXOPS FinOps Alignment

SKYXOPS is built on FinOps principles, providing a comprehensive governance platform that supports the Inform, Optimize, and Operate phases of the FinOps lifecycle. Our unique CostGuard capability extends FinOps into the CI/CD pipeline for proactive cost prevention.

FinOps Capabilities:

  • Multi-cloud cost visibility and allocation
  • Budget management and forecasting
  • Optimization recommendations (100+ sensors)
  • Showback and chargeback support
  • CostGuard for proactive governance

SKYXOPS Across the FinOps Lifecycle

INFORM

Visibility and allocation for informed decisions

  • Multi-cloud dashboards
  • Cost allocation by team/project
  • Tag-IQ for tagging governance
  • Anomaly detection and alerts
  • Kubernetes cost visibility

OPTIMIZE

Identify and act on savings opportunities

  • 100+ AI-powered sensors
  • RI/SP recommendations
  • Rightsizing suggestions
  • Storage optimization (112 sensors)
  • AI/LLM cost tracking

OPERATE

Govern and enable continuous improvement

  • CostGuard CI/CD integration
  • Hierarchical budget management
  • Policy-based guardrails
  • Approval workflows
  • SKYXOPS Edge services

FOCUS Specification Support

The FinOps Open Cost & Usage Specification (FOCUS) standardizes how cloud providers format billing data. SKYXOPS supports FOCUS-aligned data normalization, enabling consistent cost analysis across AWS, Azure, and GCP without custom integrations.

  • Normalized billing data across providers
  • Consistent cost allocation taxonomy
  • Multi-cloud comparison and reporting
  • SaaS and AI workload cost tracking

FinOps Principles SKYXOPS Supports

Teams need to collaborate

Shared dashboards and budget visibility for engineering, finance, and business teams

Everyone takes ownership

Hierarchical budgets with team-level accountability and cost allocation

Reports should be accessible and timely

Real-time dashboards with anomaly alerts and scheduled reports

Decisions are driven by business value

CostGuard evaluates changes against budgets before deployment

Take advantage of the variable cost model

RI/SP recommendations optimize commitment vs. on-demand balance

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