Free resources
Free FinOps and FOCUS resources
Worked material you can use without buying a course or giving an email address.
BilledCost vs EffectiveCost in FOCUS, with SQL
What each column means, how a commitment purchase and its amortization appear in FOCUS data, the SQL to reconcile them, the mistakes that make $0 rows look free, and where AWS, Azure and Google Cloud differ.
Free FOCUS analysis exercise: dataset, SQL and findings memo
A downloadable synthetic multi-cloud FOCUS dataset, five SQL questions with explained solutions you can run in DuckDB, and an example findings memo. No email required.
Cloud unit economics from FOCUS data: cost per 1,000 orders in SQL
How to turn a FOCUS billing export into a cost-per-order number you can defend: choosing the numerator, allocating shared and unused commitment cost, picking the grain, and checking whether cost really scales with volume. Runnable DuckDB SQL on a free synthetic dataset.
Choosing a FinOps learning path: skills training vs official credentials
Which learning options fit data engineers, cloud engineers and FinOps analysts, what an official FinOps Foundation credential gives you that skills training does not, and when the free options are the better choice.