AI engineering glossary · MLOps, LLMOps cloud
What is finOps?
FinOps: A practice that brings engineering, finance and business teams together to understand, allocate and optimise cloud spending, making cost a shared, measured responsibility. It is increasingly applied to GPU and language-model bills.
FinOps: an example
A monthly review shows idle GPU instances cost ₹2.5 lakh, prompting an auto-shutdown policy.
Related terms
- Cost allocation tags
- Reserved instance
- Spot instance
- LLM cost management
More MLOps, LLMOps cloud terms
- GitOps
- Google Cloud Storage
- GPU instance
- Grafana
- Health check
- High availability
- Horizontal Pod Autoscaler
- IAM role
Where you learn it
FinOps is part of the AI Engineering Program, which teaches it with notes, a hands-on lab and an exam. The first lesson is free.