The promise of FinOps is clear: better visibility, smarter cost management, and optimized cloud spending. But for many organizations, achieving these goals requires significant manual effort. Teams spend hours sifting through recommendations, coordinating across departments, and implementing changes—often leading to delays, inefficiencies, and missed savings opportunities. Without automation, FinOps teams struggle to act quickly on cost insights, limiting their ability to maximize cloud efficiency.
That’s why we’re excited to introduce CloudFlow, a powerful new FinOps automation solution within the DoiT Cloud Intelligence™ platform. CloudFlow enables teams to streamline cloud cost management by automating actions on FinOps recommendations—whether that’s rightsizing workloads, scheduling resources, tagging assets, or more. Instead of manually reviewing and executing cost-saving measures, users can create workflows that do the work for them.
What is CloudFlow?
CloudFlow is designed to simplify and accelerate FinOps workflows by enabling users to create automation using prebuilt blueprints or custom configurations. It seamlessly integrates with other DoiT Cloud Intelligence capabilities such as Insights, allowing teams to respond proactively to cost-saving opportunities and unexpected spikes in cloud spending.
Some of CloudFlow’s key features include:
- Automated FinOps workflows – Set up workflows to execute cost optimization actions without manual intervention.
- Prebuilt & customizable blueprints – Use ready-made templates or build workflows from scratch to match your organization’s needs.
- Seamless integration – Use CloudFlow to act on cost optimization recommendations generated by DoiT Insights.
How CloudFlow benefits FinOps teams
CloudFlow isn’t just about automation—it’s about making FinOps teams more efficient, proactive, and impactful by driving tangible improvements across teams and departments:
- Reduce manual workload – Eliminate time-consuming manual processes by automating routine tasks.
- Speed up cost-saving actions – Act on cost insights in real time, reducing unnecessary cloud spend.
- Ensure consistency – Standardize FinOps best practices across teams with repeatable, automated workflows.
- Enhance governance & compliance – Apply automated tagging and policy enforcement to maintain cloud hygiene.
Real-world use cases for CloudFlow
With CloudFlow, FinOps practitioners are able to drive real savings and efficiency by leveraging the no-code UI, and foster team collaboration across finance and engineering deparments with one-touch approvals via email or Slack. Meanwhile, engineers who bear responsibility for implementing workload changes can clear some of the more manual and time-consuming off of their to-do lists:
- Rightsizing Workloads Automatically
Instead of manually reviewing and adjusting instance sizes based on utilization reports, CloudFlow can trigger automatic rightsizing actions based on DoiT Insights recommendations. This ensures workloads are always running at optimal efficiency without overprovisioning.
- Scheduling Non-Production Resources
Many organizations leave non-production environments running 24/7, incurring unnecessary costs. With CloudFlow, teams can schedule automatic shutdowns during off-hours and bring resources back online only when needed.
- Enforcing Resource Tagging Policies
CloudFlow can automatically tag resources based on predefined rules, ensuring all assets are properly categorized for cost allocation, compliance, and governance. No more hunting down untagged resources manually.
Get started with CloudFlow today
With CloudFlow, FinOps teams can move beyond manual processes and embrace intelligent automation to optimize cloud costs effortlessly. Whether it’s rightsizing workloads, scheduling resources, or enforcing governance policies, CloudFlow gives you the tools to take action instantly on your cloud cost insights.
Want to see CloudFlow in action? Check out our step-by-step walkthrough, or contact a DoiT expert today to learn how you can start automating your FinOps workflows.
