Start with educating architects and developers on how to measure and optimize costs. They are the first point (and probably cheapest) to optimize costs.
Later, FinOps role can evolve but expectations will mostly be reactive.
Later, FinOps role can evolve but expectations will mostly be reactive.
A high margin product might want to launch quickly and reliably, costs be damned. Another product may need to run as cheap as possible, even if it's unreliable and takes a long time to develop.
FinOps translates business goals into technical requirements. It's not just cutting everything down to as cheap as it can be.
Lets see how long that is cheaper than just hiring 2-3 finops folk and just put them in every room where the software architecture is being designed for new services and make them drill down hard into team on what to avoid.
Not to mention it’s a better way to do things in the Single Responsibility Principle that most great teams follow
if everyone is responsible for cutting costs and optimizing.
Then no one is….