MC-1 Intelligence FinOps

Overview

FinOps connects workload demand, provider economics, budgets, quality objectives, and route evidence without treating lowest cost as the only goal.

• Apply budget boundaries before execution.
• Attribute provider cost and control-plane charges separately.
• Compare cost only among policy-eligible routes.
• Detect retries, context growth, and workload anomalies.
• Use showback or chargeback with named allocation rules.

Production checklist

• Keep credentials in a server-side secret store.
• Set explicit cost, latency, privacy, provider, and regional constraints.
• Capture route and evaluation evidence for incident review.
• Test timeouts, cancellation, fallback, and denied-policy paths before rollout.