Cloud FinOps resource roundup: Your go-to FinOps and cloud cost optimization resources

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Searching for best practices on Cloud FinOps? Look no further. Here, we've gathered our top resources on FinOps to help answer your questions and meet your cloud cost optimization goals.

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Published whitepapers

• Unlocking the value of cloud FinOps with a new Operating Model
• Maximize business value with Cloud FinOps
• Maximize Cost Efficiency with CUD Optimization Strategy
• Cloud FinOps - Shared Services Cost Allocation
• Unit costing: The next frontier in Cloud FinOps
• Driving Cloud FinOps at scale with Google Cloud Tagging

Blogs and articles

• Cloud FinOps: The Secret To Unlocking The Economic Potential Of Public Cloud
• Decoding Cloud FinOps to accelerate digital transformation
• 5 key metrics to measure Cloud FinOps impact in your organization in 2022 and beyond
• Best practices for optimizing your cloud costs
• How to Optimize Google Cloud Costs: Compute, Networking, and Cloud Storage
• Guide to Cloud Financial Management: How to foster a culture of FinOps
• Managing Cloud Cost Anomalies
• How Top Companies Are Solving for Financial Resilience with the Cloud
• Cloud Cost Reduction: Our Top 9 Cloud Cost Optimization Strategies

Podcasts/YouTube

• What is FinOps and 3 reasons why you should care about it
• Top 10 ways to lower your costs on Google Cloud
• Cost optimization in the cloud: Best practices for startups
• Optimize for reliability, innovation and cost-efficiency with GKE
• Efficiency Engineering with Cloud FinOps at Target
• Google Cloud Next - OpenX case study of reducing per unit cost by 60%
• Cost management video series
• Beyond your bill video series
• Framing up FinOps: How to optimize your cloud costs on Google Cloud 
• Framing up FinOps: Making cloud billing data accessible and easy to understand
• Framing up FinOps: Billing Tools 

Documentation

• Cost Optimization pillar of the Google Cloud Architecture Framework 
• Google Cloud Cost Management tools

Learning and training

• [Google Cloud Skills Boost] Understanding your Google Cloud Costs
• [Google Cloud Skills Boost] Optimizing your Google Cloud Costs
• FinOps Foundation learning and certification options
• Google Cloud Community Learning & Certification hub