FinOps Framework
Every technology category, one cost model.
The FinOps Framework now spans technology categories well beyond public cloud. CloudMonitor governs cost across each one your Azure estate runs — from AI tokens to data platforms to the licenses underneath.
What FinOps now covers
Govern cost across seven categories with one bill.
Each category below uses the FinOps Foundation's naming. Where CloudMonitor ships a dedicated view, follow the link.
Public Cloud
Azure consumption — compute, storage, networking, databases — modeled natively on the FOCUS schema.
AI
Tokens and GPUs — Copilot, OpenAI, Claude, Cursor, Azure OpenAI deployments, and GPU SKUs. The fastest-growing line on the bill.
SaaS
Third-party SaaS bought on credit cards — Datadog, Snowflake, Notion, Figma — pulled into the same view.
Data Center
Hybrid and on-prem footprint costed alongside the cloud bill, not in a separate spreadsheet.
Licensing
Azure Hybrid Benefit, BYOL, M365, Power BI, and marketplace licenses reviewed every month.
Private Cloud
Self-hosted and private-cloud capacity, brought into the same allocation and showback model as public cloud.
Data Platform
Fabric, Synapse, Databricks, and Snowflake spend — the analytics tier, costed with everything else.
Where the field is
FinOps now manages technology value.
7
Technology categories governed on Azure
57%
Now manage private cloud — State of FinOps 2026
AI
The fastest-growing category on the bill
Categories in CloudMonitor
One allocation model across every category.
One model
Cloud, AI, and licensing in one roll-up.
Spend from every category lands in the same cost groups, so a team’s technology cost is one comparable number — not a category-by-category hunt.
Across categories
Spikes caught wherever they start.
Anomaly detection runs across categories — an AI token surge or a runaway data-platform job is flagged the day it happens, not at invoice time.
Source: this page interprets the FinOps Technology Categories published by the FinOps Foundation, licensed under CC BY 4.0. The wording, examples, and product mapping on this page are CloudMonitor’s own.
Govern cost across every technology category.
CloudMonitor spans Azure cloud, AI token, and licensing cost across your own tenant.
