Open Source BSD FinOps Tools

The AWS Cloud Intelligence Dashboards Framework is a set of open-source tools and templates designed to help organizations deploy and manage advanced data visualization dashboards that offer insights into cost, usage, governance, and operational health across AWS environments. It is part of the AWS Solutions Library and includes CloudFormation templates, CLI commands, and pre-built dashboards that collect, process, and visualize data from AWS billing, cost management, budgets, and usage reports in services such as Amazon QuickSight or other BI tools. These dashboards give finance and engineering teams the power to track spending trends, budget forecasts, account utilization patterns, and compliance signals in a unified view, enabling better governance and financial accountability at scale.

OpenOps is an open-source, no-code FinOps automation platform designed to help organizations manage and optimize cloud financial operations with minimal manual effort. At its core, OpenOps provides a visual workflow builder that lets teams construct automated processes for cloud cost optimization, budgeting, tagging, allocation, forecasting, and anomaly management without writing code, making complex financial workflows approachable for both technical and financial users. The platform includes an integrated spreadsheet-like database called OpenOps Tables and built-in analytics for tracking metrics and visualizing cost trends, enabling teams to consolidate disparate cloud cost data into actionable dashboards. It also supports collaboration between FinOps practitioners, engineers, DevOps teams, finance departments, and leadership, ensuring that cost-saving measures are not only identified but coordinated and executed effectively.

azure-cost-cli is a command-line tool that simplifies cost analysis for Microsoft Azure subscriptions by retrieving, summarizing, and visualizing spending data directly from the CLI, helping cloud operators and finance teams understand where resources are generating costs. Users can run the tool against their Azure account to output cost breakdowns by service, resource group, tag, or timeframe, enabling quick identification of costly services or budget overruns without needing to navigate the Azure portal. It supports filtering and aggregation so teams can tie spend to organizational units or project initiatives, and it’s particularly useful for scripting automated cost checks in CI/CD pipelines or periodic reports. By bringing cost insights to the terminal, the tool helps engineers and managers catch inefficiencies early and make data-driven decisions about scaling, shutting down unused services, or optimizing reserved instances.

ec2instances is an open-source project that powers an intuitive, searchable comparison site for Amazon EC2 instance types, helping developers and cloud architects quickly evaluate compute options without the friction of navigating multiple AWS console screens. The site aggregates key metrics — including CPU, memory, storage, networking specs, and pricing — across many instance families, and lets users filter, sort, and visually compare configurations side by side. It was created to simplify decision-making for cloud provisioning, making it easier to choose the best instance type for performance and cost goals, and it’s maintained by the Vantage community to stay updated with current AWS offerings and user suggestions. Contributors use automated scrapers and workflows in the repository to fetch, update, and curate the underlying data that powers the comparison interface, and the site itself supports API access for programmatic integration into tools or dashboards.

Finala is an open-source cloud resource scanner that detects and reports on unused or wasteful cloud assets, helping organizations reduce unnecessary expenses and optimize their infrastructure footprint by continuously analyzing deployed resources against user-defined rules. It scans cloud environments, identifies idle or underutilized machines, unattached storage, or resources not aligned with utilization policies, and presents actionable insights that help teams reclaim budget and compliance. Users define scanning criteria and thresholds in configuration files to tailor detection to their operational needs, making Finala flexible across different organizational scales and cloud setups. The tool then outputs reports and notifications about inefficient resources, enabling cost-conscious engineering teams to make informed decisions about shutting down or rightsizing assets. Because it’s self-hosted and rule-based, Finala can be integrated into CI/CD and monitoring workflows.

OpenMeter is an open-source metering and billing platform designed to collect, aggregate, and analyze usage events from APIs, cloud infrastructure, and software services in real time, enabling flexible usage-based billing for SaaS, AI, and DevOps offerings. It supports high-scale event ingestion and deduplication to accurately record how customers consume billable resources such as API calls, compute time, or storage, and then correlates that usage with payment systems and billing plans to automate invoicing and revenue recognition. The system includes metering, storage, cataloging of products and pricing rules, and tools to enforce limits or quotas, supporting both self-service customer portals and internal dashboards. OpenMeter integrates with payment processors, CRMs, and analytics systems, letting teams launch complex pricing models or subscription tiers without heavy custom engineering work.

Selefra is an open-source policy-as-code and infrastructure analysis tool that helps engineering and security teams gain visibility into complex multi-cloud and SaaS environments by treating infrastructure data as queryable information. The core idea behind Selefra is “select * from infrastructure,” meaning you can write flexible SQL-style queries against cloud configuration and inventory data assembled from dozens of services such as AWS, Azure, GCP, Kubernetes, GitHub, Slack, and more, bringing auditing, security, compliance, cost optimization, and architecture insights into one place. It unifies data across provider APIs into a structured model, making it simple to detect misconfigurations, enforce governance policies, and build custom analytics workflows that align with organizational standards. Users can manage policies as code, version them alongside application code, and automate analysis and enforcement through scheduled tasks, CI/CD, or policy-as-code tooling.

The Cloud Cost Handbook by vantage-sh is an open-source, community-driven documentation project that breaks down the often confusing and opaque pricing models of major public cloud providers into clear, practical guides written in plain English. It’s intended as an educational resource for developers, finance teams, and FinOps practitioners who need to understand how cloud costs are structured, what drives pricing across services, and how to estimate, optimize, and forecast spend without wading through dense official documentation. The handbook covers core concepts, pricing examples, cost-optimization techniques, and billing models across providers such as AWS, Azure, and GCP, with each section curated to improve clarity and accessibility for readers without deep financial or cloud billing expertise. Because it’s hosted on GitHub and open to contributions, anyone from beginners to experts can add insights, examples, and updated pricing patterns as cloud offerings evolve.

theByteBook is a large open-source repository that publishes a comprehensive technical book focused on high-availability system design, modern cloud-native infrastructure, and foundational engineering concepts, serving as both a learning resource and architecture reference. The content covers deep dives into networking principles, container ecosystems, Kubernetes, service meshes, distributed systems, and SRE/DevOps practices, aiming to help practitioners build reliable, scalable, and cost-efficient systems. Although originally authored in Chinese and tied to a published physical book, the repository hosts the full text as markdown and site content, letting developers read versioned chapters online or build a local copy for offline study. It’s organized into modules that progress from basic concepts to advanced deployment and governance topics, and the materials evolve with community contributions and updates.