In 2024, several trends will dominate cloud computing, driving innovation, efficiency, and scalability. From Infrastructure as Code (IaC) to AI/ML, platform engineering to multi-cloud and hybrid strategies, and security practices, let’s explore the 10 biggest emerging trends.
What is FinOps? The FinOps Foundation eloquently defines FinOps as “an evolving cloud financial management discipline and cultural practice that enables organizations to get maximum business value by helping engineering, finance, technology and business teams to collaborate on data-driven spending decisions.” Simply put, FinOps is the continuous effort to control cloud spend. Just as organizations have adopted operations-focused best practices into software development cycles and have considered how to best insert security best practices along the way, financial best practices may also be codified by developers writing cloud programs.