FinOps Certified Practitioner case studies
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The FinOps Certified Practitioner (FCP) is one of the certifications offered through the FinOps Foundation's training and certification program. The FinOps Foundation describes itself as a place for practitioners to advance their careers through connections, best practices, education, and specifications, and it operates as a project of the Linux Foundation within its Technology Value Umbrella. The Foundation reports a global community of more than 120,000 people, with more than 72,000 trained and certified. The credential targets people who manage the value of technology - the Foundation's own framing of its audience - including finance, engineering, procurement and product roles that need a shared vocabulary for cloud and technology spend. The FinOps Certified Practitioner case studies are 5 cases and about 4,333 words.
1The 30% Mandate at Northwind Logistics
Northwind Logistics spends $1.8M a year on AWS across three accounts operated by a central platform team. Fourteen product teams deploy into those accounts through a shared CI pipeline and have no direct console access.
812 words, about 4 min2Persona Gaps at Helio Retail
Helio Retail spends $6.2M a year across public cloud and SaaS. A four-engineer Cloud Center of Excellence was stood up 18 months ago and owns 'cloud cost'.
877 words, about 4 min3Jumping to Run at Verdant Health
Verdant Health has run public cloud for two years at $9.4M a year. Tag coverage on cost is 78%.
879 words, about 4 min4Allocating the Shared Platform at Crestline Media
Crestline Media spends $4.5M a year on public cloud. Around 40% of that runs on a shared Kubernetes platform, a shared observability stack and a shared data warehouse, all operated by a central platform team.
867 words, about 4 min5Scope Creep at Brightpath Software
Brightpath Software is a FinOps team of three whose remit covers only public cloud: 3.1M a year. The CFO has just discovered that SaaS is 1.4M (Salesforce, Datadog, Snowflake, plus 60 smaller tools) and that the on-premises data centre costs $2.2M a year, with a five-year hardware refresh due in 18 months.
898 words, about 4 min