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FinOps-Open-Cost-and-Usage-Spec / FOCUS_Spec

The Unifying Specification for Cloud Billing Data
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Is FOCUS use of "Service" aligned with the FinOps tools and services capability? #414

Open flanakin opened 5 months ago

flanakin commented 5 months ago

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Dimensions: ServiceName, ServiceCategory

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FinOps Framework introduced a new "FinOps tools and services" capability which states:

"For purposes of describing this capability, a FinOps Tool refers to any of the cloud provider or third party software packages that support any of the FinOps capabilities. Tools range from broad FinOps platforms that support most FinOps Capabilities to targeted specialty tools which deeply support a specific activity or scope of cloud usage. A FinOps Service refers to a third-party service to deliver outcomes related to the FinOps capabilities. These services may include training, consultancy, managed services or even the outsourcing of parts of your FinOps practice altogether."

This doesn't exactly align to our use of the term "service". Should we make any changes to account for that? Given the "For the purpose of describing this capability" intro, I'm not sure the capability is trying to take an official stance on terms so maybe we're fine. Or maybe we want to call out that our use of "Service" covers both "tools" and "services"? Just wanted to bring this up for discussion.

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mike-finopsorg commented 5 months ago

Thanks @flanakin, I will take some time today to review this compared to the framework and comment here.

mike-finopsorg commented 5 months ago

I read through the spec and if anything I think that the FinOps Capability should be updated slightly to avoid the service (cloud service) vs services (services provider) confusion. The spec correctly uses services providers as SaaS/Consulting/Reseller and service as an offering from a provider.

jpradocueva commented 5 months ago

This topic was moved to v1.1.