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Bringing Visibility and Allocating Cost

With so many things to look at, often, the FinOps team does not know where to start, what to look for, and how to establish a successful FinOps practice for the organization. In this chapter, we will start by bringing visibility to your existing IT environment using two powerful tools. First is the Microsoft Well-Architected Framework (WAF) Cost Optimization assessment questionnaire. This will help you understand the people side of things and what practices engineers, DevOps, product owners, and solution architects follow to build and deploy their workloads in Azure. At the end of the self-assessment, you will be provided with a baseline score. This score is your starting point to keep track of your ...

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