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FinOps Foundation

A vendor-neutral industry body, part of the Linux Foundation, that publishes the FinOps Framework, the maturity model and the FOCUS billing standard. Its vocabulary is widely used across tools and companies. Why it matters: A shared vocabulary makes FinOps practice portable across teams and tools.

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T0 / M0.2 / L1 The six FinOps principles in one page T5 / M5.1 / L1 Crawl: visibility-only orgs

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