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What is nOps Inform with respect to cloud FinOps.

nOps Inform brings you real-time visibility into your costs and usage across teams, applications, and business units—without spreadsheets or manual effort. Get answers instantly, eliminating billing surprises and ensuring effective financial management of your cloud spend.

  • Integrations. Analyze and optimize all of your AWS, Azure, GCP, Kubernetes, GenAI and SaaS costs. Easy integrations normalize all of your data and present it in a single, unified view.
  • Cost Analysis. Quickly find and view exactly what you need with 40+ filters and views built for finance and engineering. Find and eliminate hidden costs unnecessarily increasing your bill.
  • Reports & Dashboards. Tailor report templates, dashboards and notifications to your unique needs. Customize access for your team so they only see the data relevant to them.
  • Cost Allocation. You don’t need fully tagged resources to allocate costs. Easily filter resources and generate showbacks automatically using metadata like Environment, Account, Operating System, Usage Type, and more.
  • Shared Cost. Attributing costs shared across your organization is simple and easy with nOps — whether you’re allocating data transfer, NAT gateway, support, or any other shared cost.
  • Cost Savings. Recommendations. Tackle the easiest, highest-impact savings first with all of your cost recommendations prioritized by effort and impact. It’s easy to take action with links back to the relevant resources.
  • MAP Tracker. Simplify and automate AWS Migration Assistance Program (MAP) with real-time visibility into your funding, milestones, and resource tagging.

How nOps Inform helps all Cloud practioners ?​

For FinOps Practitioners
For FinOps Practitioners
  1. Granular Cost Tracking: Dive deep into detailed data for better cost optimization.
  2. Broader Insights: Leverage organized reports for trend analysis and forecasting.
  3. Shared Cost Allocation: Use tools like Cost Allocation to give business context to every dollar of AWS spend down to the pod level.
  4. Single Plane of Glass: View all the spending across multiple clouds like AWS, Azure, GCP*, DataDog, and Databricks all in one place.
For Engineers and Managers
For Engineers and Managers
  1. Operational Decision-Making: Use actionable data to improve workflows and allocate resources.
  2. Enhanced Collaboration: Provide team-specific cost visibility to drive informed discussions.
  3. Resource Querying: Leverage Data Explorer and Cloud Inventory to filter and navigate your cloud resources efficiently.

How to Use nOps Inform?​

Getting started with nOps Inform is simple:

  1. Log in to nOps and navigate to the Inform Menu > Explorer.
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  1. Explore tools like Cost Analysis, Cost Allocation, Tag Explorer, and Commitment Inventory to identify trends and optimize resource usage
  2. Tailor reports and notifications for your team’s specific needs using Cost Analysis Reports.

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If you do not subscribe by the end of the trial, it will expire, and you will not be able to start a new trial.

FAQs​

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1. To subscribe after the trial:​

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  1. Click on the Upgrade to BC+ banner.
  2. You will be redirected to schedule a meeting with the sales team to finalize your subscription.

2. How does Inform handle shared cost allocation?​

Inform allows you to define rules to distribute shared costs like data transfer or NAT gateways across multiple teams or projects, ensuring accurate cost allocation.

3. How do I get started with Business Context?​

Log in to nOps, navigate to the Business Context menu, and explore tools like Cost Analysis, Cost Allocation, Cost Analysis Reports, Cost Analysis Targets, Tag Explorer, and Commitment Inventory to analyze and optimize your cloud usage.

4. What reports can I generate using Inform?​

You can generate reports on cost trends, budget variances, usage breakdowns by tag or service, and save customized reports for future use.

5. How long before I see data in Explorer?​

Data will typically become available in your Explorer within 24 to 48 hours.

6. How old the data is?​

There is a 24-hour delay in data availability, aligned with the AWS Cost and Usage Report (CUR) update cycle.