We’ve been handling cloud and DevOps for our clients for years, which also means we've been helping them make sense of their cloud bills and cut down waste. We’ve tried plenty of cloud management tools along the way, most of which are SaaS-based and require exposing sensitive client data. The ones that come from the cloud providers are usually limited in scope and take forever to update their features.
Then we found Finala.
At the end of 2024, one of our team members came across Finala, an open-source, self-hosted tool. Finala scans cloud resources based on the rules you define in YAML files. For example, you can set a rule to find servers that are only utilized by 50% over the last 14 days.
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