Cost Allocation
1. How well are cloud costs tagged and attributed to business units?
2. How granular is your cost visibility?
3. How do you handle shared/common costs?
4. How current is your cost data?
5. How accessible is cost data to stakeholders?
Budgeting & Forecasting
6. How do you forecast cloud spend?
7. How accurate are your cloud budgets?
8. How often do you review budgets?
9. How do you handle budget overruns?
10. How do you model new project costs?
Rate Optimization
11. What is your RI/SP coverage for stable workloads?
12. How do you approach spot/preemptible instance usage?
13. How do you negotiate with cloud providers?
14. How do you manage licensing costs?
15. How do you handle multi-cloud pricing complexity?
Usage Optimization
16. How do you identify and remove idle resources?
17. How do you right-size resources?
18. How do you manage dev/test environments?
19. How do you optimize storage?
20. How do you manage container/serverless efficiency?
Governance & Policy
21. Do you have a FinOps policy framework?
22. How do you control cloud resource provisioning?
23. How do you manage compliance requirements?
24. How mature is your cloud security cost management?
25. How do you manage sustainability/carbon tracking?
Organizational Alignment
26. Is there a dedicated FinOps team or role?
27. How engaged is engineering in cost management?
28. How involved is executive leadership?
29. How do teams collaborate on cloud costs?
30. How mature is your FinOps training program?