About Aquila Clouds FinOps

About Aquila Clouds FinOps

The Aquila Clouds FinOps platform enables you to:

  • Clearly identify areas of cloud cost wastage

  • Take corrective action using the clearly defined actionable plans with inbuilt options to take corrective action

  • Continuously Monitor and Continuously Optimize using the coverage for the ever-evolving cloud workloads and scenarios

  • Define centralized policy for governance in a multi-cloud setup. For instance, you can use features such as budget control, chargebacks, define limit on number of VMs at department level, or implement lifecycle on storage

  • Establish proper coordination between the Finance and IT operations teams.

  • Quickly detect data anomalies and potential data egress caused by security breaches or hacking attempts by identifying abnormal usage spikes against historical consumption patterns. With proactive budget controls and threshold-based alerts, users can also identify budget overruns early—before cost deviations escalate into significant financial impact.

FinOps FOCUS compliance

FOCUS 1.2 Compliant
Aquila Clouds supports the FinOps Open Cost and Usage Specification (FOCUS) 1.2 standard, enabling normalized multi-cloud and AI cost data for improved visibility, governance, chargeback accuracy, and cross-platform financial analytics.

Workflow for configuring and using Aquila Clouds FinOps platform

The following diagram shows the recommended workflow to configure and use the Aquila Clouds FinOps platform.