State of FinOps 2025

The State of FinOps is a key program to support the FinOps Foundation’s mission to advance every individual who manages the value of cloud.

Completing the full survey provides anonymized data that informs the Technical Advisory Council for their strategy which delivers best practices to the community. With only 38 questions this year, we encourage you to complete the entire survey to provide a full picture of the industry and support the FinOps community with your contribution.

Thank you for your time and if you have any questions about the survey please email hello@finops.org

PRIVACY

All responses will be kept anonymous and no personally identifiable information will be published. Only Linux Foundation full time employees will have access to the raw survey data. No raw data with personally identifiable information will be shared with anyone outside the Linux Foundation. Reviews are attributed to your role, company size, and industry. Responses will be subject to the Linux Foundation's Privacy Policy, available at https://linuxfoundation.org/privacy. We will compile anonymized data from this survey to provide trends and analysis of the FinOps space.

Ready to contribute? Let's start with who you are…

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* 1. What is your first name?

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* 2. What is your last name?

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* 3. What is your work email address?

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* 4. What is your current job title?

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* 5. What is the company you currently work for?

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* 6. What region do you live in? (select one)

North America

South and Central America

Europe

Middle East

Africa

Asia

Australia & New Zealand

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* 7. What is your role's seniority?

Entry-level Contributor

Mid-level Contributor

Senior

Manager

Director

Vice President

C-level

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* 8. Which of these do you relate with most? (select one)

I work on a FinOps team managing my own organization’s cloud spend

I work with my organization’s FinOps team (e.g. engineer, product leader, leadership)

I work with my organization’s cloud spend, but we don’t have a FinOps team

I work as a consultant/contractor to a single organization managing their cloud spend directly

I work as a consultant to many organizations managing their cloud spend directly

My organization provides services to help other organizations manage their cloud spend

My organization offers tooling to help people manage cloud spend

My organization is a cloud service provider (e.g. Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure, Oracle Cloud etc)

Other (please specify)

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