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### FinOps and GreenOps {#finOps}

Within business, there is already a considerable body of theory and practice around Cloud optimisation, associated with the [FinOps](https://www.finops.org/introduction/what-is-finops/) approach. FinOps actions taken to reduce Cloud spend (e.g. reservation management, data lifecycle management, continuous rightsizing) often have the unintended consequence of reducing carbon emissions too (although that's not *always* the case).
Within business, there is already a considerable body of theory and practice around cloud optimisation, associated with the [FinOps](https://www.finops.org/introduction/what-is-finops/) approach. FinOps actions taken to reduce cloud spend (e.g. reservation management, data lifecycle management, continuous rightsizing) often have the unintended consequence of reducing carbon emissions too (although that's not *always* the case).

Interestingly, FinOps is also not *just* about cost in a narrow sense, but about multidimensional value (for example, the "Iron Triangle" of fast, cheap, and good service). FinOps practitioners are interested in the various trade-offs and co-benefits of using the Cloud in different ways.

So it looks like there is potential to integrate sustainability (and even climate justice) into FinOps practice. By bringing together financial, IT, and sustainability teams under a common objective, a FinOps Centre of Sustainable Excellence, or a GreenOps Centre of Excellence, might allow these traditionally siloed disciplines to collaborate and share expertise.
This means there is good potential to integrate sustainability (and even climate justice) into FinOps practice. By bringing together financial, IT, and sustainability teams under a common objective, a FinOps Centre of Sustainable Excellence, or a GreenOps Centre of Excellence, might allow these traditionally siloed disciplines to collaborate and share expertise.

However, we're certainly not there yet. Sustainability is not a prominent theme in FinOps literature. As you might expect, FinOps also leans techno-solutionist, so there could be tensions with any really transformative thinking.
However, the GreenOps approach is still emerging. Sustainability is not yet a prominent theme in FinOps literature. As you might expect, FinOps also [leans techno-solutionist](https://medium.com/@jolindsaywalton/what-is-greenops-7eed58db87e1), so there is potential for tensions with perspectives such as digital sobriety, Minimal Computing, or degrowth.

Major Cloud providers offer tools that anticipate a FinOps perspective, including [AWS Trusted Advisor](https://aws.amazon.com/premiumsupport/technology/trusted-advisor/), [Microsoft Azure Cost Management](https://azure.microsoft.com/en-gb/products/cost-management), [GCP Cost Management](https://cloud.google.com/cost-management).
Major cloud providers offer tools that anticipate a FinOps perspective, including [AWS Trusted Advisor](https://aws.amazon.com/premiumsupport/technology/trusted-advisor/), [Microsoft Azure Cost Management](https://azure.microsoft.com/en-gb/products/cost-management), [GCP Cost Management](https://cloud.google.com/cost-management).

Further reading: Filippo Vanara, [IDC, 'Rise of FinOps and GreenOps -- The Importance of These Strategies in 2023 and Beyond'
Other terms include DevGreenOps (Greenspector) and DevSustainOps (Eric Zie, *Decarbonise the Digital*).

Further reading:

* Filippo Vanara, [IDC, 'Rise of FinOps and GreenOps -- The Importance of These Strategies in 2023 and Beyond'
](https://blog-idceurope.com/finops-and-greenops-strategies-in-2023/) (2023).
* Greenspector, [How do you go from DevOps to DevGreenOps?](https://greenspector.com/en/how-do-you-go-from-devops-to-devgreenops/#3-framework-for-implementing-devgreenops-calms-in-green)
* GreenPixie, [What is GreenOps?](https://greenpixie.dev/pages/about-creative/)
* Greenly, [FinOps and GreenOps, How Do They Relate?](https://greenly.earth/en-gb/blog/ecology-news/finops-and-greenops-how-do-they-relate]
* The New Stack, [What is GreenOps? Putting a Sustainable Focus on FinOps](https://thenewstack.io/what-is-greenops-putting-a-sustainable-focus-on-finops/)

## Quantum computing {#quantum-computing}

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