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Governance
Cost estimates, approvals, budgets and policies built into pipelines and the platform.
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FinOps built into the platform
NGT's platform pattern: cost is part of the request, tracked against a budget, with suggestions the owners decide on.
FinOps in the Developer Platform
Point at a component to light its links; select it for what it does here and the practice that makes it right on AWS.
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Cost checks in the infrastructure pipeline
Oversight without blocking automation: every Terraform change priced, checked and approved before it runs.
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Plan
A pull request runs the Terraform plan: the single statement of what will change.
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Guardrails that keep spend in shape
Savings drift back unless the defaults change. These make the cheap way the easy way.
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Tools in a FinOps setup
Each provider's own cost data comes first; other tools are added where they pay back.
Cost data
AWS Cost and Usage ReportAWS Cost ExplorerAzure Cost ManagementGoogle Cloud billing export
Estimates and policy
InfraCost
AWS Pricing APIAzure Policy
AWS Pricing APIAzure PolicyOptimisation and dashboards
CloudFix
Platform
SourcesNGT FinOps Service Offering (Mar 2025)NGT Cloud Operation Service Offering v0.2 (Jan 2025)NGT Azure Service Offering v1.0 (Dec 2024)NGT Google Cloud Service Offering v0.1NGT DevOps–AI Service Offering (Oct 2026)FPT Software Cloud Transformation Capabilities (2024)FinOps Foundation: FinOps Principles