Are MCPs Useful for FinOps?
Don't miss out how you can leverage them for your practice
Victor Garcia
June 15, 2025
Together with Pelanor
Follow the Money: Real-Time Cloud Cost Mapping Through eBPF
What if you could trace every dollar of cloud spend to the exact container, API call, or database query that caused it—in real time?
In this groundbreaking white paper, we reveal how eBPF technology enables kernel-level cost observability, transforming cloud costs from monthly mysteries into continuous telemetry streams.
Discover how leading teams are using this approach to reduce waste and tie technical decisions directly to business impact.
OPEN SOURCE
AWS FinOps MCP (Model Context Protocol) Server
AWS FinOps MCP Server has arrived to help people manage their AWS cloud costs. Great work by Ravi, creator of AWS FinOps CLI. W
ith it, instead of clicking through many AWS pages or writing code, you can simply type questions like "What did we spend on storage last month?"
It runs on your own computer, keeping your AWS account details safe
It can look at costs across multiple AWS accounts at once
It finds ways you might be wasting money, like unused storage or servers
It works with AI assistants like Claude Desktop and Amazon Q
To use it, you need: Python 3.10 or newer, an AWS account and basic AWS permissions set up. The tool is free to use, though AWS might charge a small fee (about 1 cent) each time you check your costs.
FOCUS
Azure & Google Cloud Cost Reporting using FOCUS
Microsoft's FinOps hubs help companies manage and track their cloud costs across different providers. This article explains how to connect Google Cloud billing data to Microsoft FinOps hubs. The setup process takes about 2-3 hours and requires:
Access to both Azure and Google Cloud accounts
Google Cloud project with BigQuery enabled
Proper permissions and roles set up
Billing data export configured in Google Cloud
A working FinOps hub deployment
The main steps
Setting up Google Cloud to export billing data in the right format
Creating special tables to track and organize the cost data
Building an automated system to move data from Google to Azure
Converting the data into a format that works with both cloud providers
The end result lets organizations compare costs between Azure and Google Cloud.
Presented by Flexera
Take FinOps from Cost Control to C-Suite Influence
FinOps has moved beyond cost containment. This new guide from Flexera, created with Raconteur, shows how FinOps leaders are turning cloud cost data into boardroom-ready insights — driving decisions on AI readiness, margin goals, and cloud cost risk.
Ready to take FinOps from operational to transformational? 👉 Get your 2025 boardroom blueprint
AZURE
Azure Cost Allocation Tutorial
A FinOps expert shares his experience with Azure's cost allocation system and why it might create more problems than solutions. The story begins when 12 Hub-subscriptions were split across 70 Devops-subscriptions in March 2025. This change made tracking costs much harder for everyone involved. Here's what went wrong:
The system only moved some costs but left others behind
Teams couldn't easily see their actual spending
Product Owners had trouble separating their direct costs from shared costs
The cost tracking tools stopped working properly
The writer found some temporary fixes such as using special tags to track original costs, creating custom dashboards for different teams and making separate views for direct and shared costs
But these fixes aren't perfect. The system still causes issues with billing processes, cost tracking and finding unusual spending patterns.
If you want to learn more about how to do proper allocation in Azure, you can join our MasterClass with Alfonso San Miguel where we are going to teach you how to do proper allocation
FINOPS EVENTS
Customer Cost Clarity: Insights That Drive Action
Join us for a free, live session where you'll discover how to turn your cloud bill from an opaque expense report into a strategic business weapon.You will learn how to:
Pinpoint the exact cloud cost for each individual customer, feature, or team.
Make data-driven decisions on pricing, engineering, and sales strategy.
Stop cutting costs blindly and start optimizing for profitability.
Hosted by industry leaders Victor Garcia (Founder, FinOps Weekly), Ido Kotler (CPO & Co-Founder, Pelanor), and Anderson Oliveira (FinOps Consultant, Zephyr Globe).
This isn't just another talk on cost reduction. This is about transforming your FinOps practice from reactive to strategic.
See you the 26th June - 6:00 PM CEST
FINOPS AS CODE
AWS EKS Deployment with Terraform & FinOps
This article explains how to set up and manage a Kubernetes cluster on Amazon Web Services (AWS) while keeping costs low.
Setting up the basic system with Terraform
Provides code examples for each part
Shows how to create the needed files and settings
Explains step-by-step setup of the cloud infrastructure
Managing costs wisely
Gives tips on picking the right server types
Compares regular servers versus cheaper "Spot" servers
Shows how to save money while keeping things running well
Making sure services stay online
Explains how to handle server changes smoothly
Includes safety settings to prevent sudden stops
Shows ways to move work between servers without breaking things
Cloud Providers
NEW! CSP Updates on FinOps: AWS GPU Price Cuts & Azure Cost Management Updates
We are starting a new format where we are going to gather all CSP announcements in FinOps Weekly Blog and provide you with the summary.
AWS
The Amazon CloudWatch agent now tracks EBS volume performance on Linux systems. This means you can easily see if your storage is working well without writing special code.
AWS also released their Invoice Summary API for everyone. Finance teams can now automatically get billing information instead of manually checking the console.
In big money-saving news, AWS cut prices by up to 45% on their computer instances that use NVIDIA GPUs. This makes high-performance computing much more affordable.
Microsoft Azure
The Cost Management tool got several updates, including new ways to organize cost reports and better support for savings plans.
They also updated their FinOps Toolkit to version 0.11, which helps teams manage their Azure spending more effectively with improved dashboards and data collection.
📺️ PODCAST
How DevOps Should Use Open Source for FinOps with the Creator of Azure Cost CLI
In this episode we sit down with Michiel van Oudheusden, creator of the open-source Azure Cost CLI, to explore how developers can take control of cloud spending using powerful tools and FinOps best practices.
🎖️ MENTION OF HONOUR
GreenOps Starter Kit
The CloudCostChefs team (Mathieu) has created a simple way to make cloud computing better for both your wallet and the environment. They call it the GreenOps Starter Kit. The kit comes with practical tools:
A 30-day plan that shows you exactly what to do
Templates to track your progress
Scripts that automate tasks
Guides for AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, and Oracle Cloud
Begin with one project, learn what works, then grow from there. The kit helps you focus on simple improvements first, like turning off unused systems and moving data to more efficient storage.
Professional Spotlight
Mathieu Kessler
Cloud Cost Chef
Recently discovered the great work Mathieu is doing on his Cloud Cost Chefs Project. Great to have contributors like him, it’s a pleasure to discover people creating great content every week.
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