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FinOps from Zero: Cloud Financial Management for Practitioners
Paperback
Business GeneralInvesting & FinanceGeneral Computers
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Aug 2 2026
Pages: 302
Weight: 0.89
Height: 0.68 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Three things happen to a company without FinOps.
The cloud bill outgrows revenue and no one can say why.
Engineers launch resources nobody shuts off, and the waste compounds every month.
Finance stops trusting the numbers, so the CFO cuts blind - and cuts the wrong things.
None of this is bad luck. The cloud is self-service and consumption-based. The people spending the moneynever see the invoice, and the people who see the invoice can't read the spend. No shared language, no owner- so cost drifts, then spikes. Roughly a third of all cloud spending is pure waste.
This book stops all three.
The Cost Visibility System turns a ten-thousand-line invoice into plain answers - stops the first. TheAllocation Model puts an owner on every dollar with tagging, showback, and chargeback - stops the second.The Optimization Loop kills waste on a fixed cadence of rightsizing, scheduling, and commitments - stops thethird. The FinOps Dashboard and the 90-day Rollout Blueprint give the business numbers it trusts and a planto make it stick.
Built from the Mike Pritula Academy FinOps program, this is a working playbook - no computer-sciencedegree or finance background required. 57 templates are printed inside, every one on the page: no downloads, no email walls, no links that break in a year.
A single forgotten cluster costs more in a month than this book. A FinOps consultant costs more in an hour.Keep guessing, and you pay the waste tax on every cloud bill for the next 18 months instead.
Stop apologizing for the bill. Start owning it. Open to Chapter 1 and start with your last invoice.
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