FinOps Center's Installation Components

FinOps Center's Installation requires configuration of your AWS Cloud Estate within the Management Account and the Delegated Admin Account where the application will be installed.

Tasks in Management Account

• Create Cost and Usage Report

• Create S3 Bucket for Cost and Usage Report

• Create IAM Role for S3 Bucket Replication

• S3 Management setup of Bucket Replication and Batch Operation (optional)

Assess Requirement

1. Admin - creating IAM Role

Tasks in Designated Admin

1. Create S3 Bucket for Bucket Replication and Frontend Application

2. Configure S3 Buckets

3. Launch and Configure QuickSight

4. Run/Configure RLS CUDOS CloudFormation Installation

Access Requirement

1. Admin - creating IAM Role

https://catalog.workshops.aws/awscid/en-US/dashboards/foundational/cudos-cid-kpi/deploy

FinOps Center leverages the work from AWS CUDOS Framework that so customer can leverage the Various QuickSight Dashboards created by the OPTICS Team.

Cloud Estate

When preparing for your FinOps Center installation, it's important to consider the design aspects concerning both your Cloud Estate and the AWS Account of your FinOps Center installation.

Aligned with the Multi-Account Strategy, FinOps Center is designed to facilitate the management of your AWS Cloud Estate via the Delegated Admin Account. A Delegated Admin account may already be created and configured in your Cloud Estate while you setup various AWS Management and Security services like Security Hub.

FinOps Center uses the Cost and Usage report that is created in the Management Account and replicated to the Delegated Admin. FinOps Center was designed to work in conjunction with the CUDOS framework which is a requirement to be installed prior to the FinOps Center installation.

To subscript to FinOps Center, you the subscription needs to be initiated and installed from the Designated Admin Account.

(We recommend that you keep instances with previous AMI until the upgraded installation is confirmed to be working properly. If recovery is required - you can restart the EC2 instance with the prior AMI which will update the CDK bucket with that version. Follow below instruction.)

Marketplace customers will receive an email that their is a new version of the FinOps Center AMI available. The AMI will be available in their EC2 Console for launch leveraging the same IAM Profile used during initial installation. The launched instance will update the FinOps Center cdk bucket with the updates. Select the FinOpsCenterStack.template.json and update the CloudFormation Stack with the object URL.

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Validate the Parameters and advance through the next few screens and hit update.

Upon Completions, Code is Updated.

S3 Bucket, SSL Certificate, CloudFront, and Route 53 for FinOps Center Front End Application

FinOps Center's Front End Application is deployed and served through S3. To prepare for the installation, an S3 bucket needs to be created, an SSL Certificated needs to be provisioned, a CloudFront Distributions needs to be setups, and lastly the CloudFront Distribution needs to be configured in your DNS to redirect your specific Domain Name of your FinOps Center.

1.Create and S3 Bucket for the FinOps Center REACT Application

Set up the bucket within the designated AWS Account for installing the FinOps Center, managed by Delegated Admin/CloudOps. Configure the bucket for static website hosting and enforce blocking of public access. Also, include index.html as both the Index and Error Document.

2.Create SSL Certificate for the FinOps Center Application

We recommend using AWS Certificate to create your SSL certificate for FinOps Center due to integration with CloudFront. Like any of your other web application, the Fully qualified domain name for your FinOps Center needs to be knows prior to requesting certifcate.

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Once the certificate is approved, it will be accessible in CloudFront. To proceed:

3.Go to CloudFront and initiate the creation of a distribution.

4.Choose the S3 bucket created for deploying the FinOps Center (Note: Do not select the Use Website Endpoint option).

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5.For Origin Access, opt for the second option: Origin access control settings (recommended), and create a control setting using the bucket defaults. Set Sign Request/Origin Type as S3, then proceed to create.

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Ensure to update the specified settings below, unless instructed otherwise, while leaving the rest as default.

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Web Access Firewall

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6. Create Distribution (When the Distribution is Create the CloudFront Homepage will have the Updated S3 bucket policy that needs to be applied to the S3 Bucket -> copy to be applied to bucket. (Note: The distribution may take 5 minutes or so to create, work on Step 9 and 10).

7. Navigate to the Error Page Tag and Config as detailed below. (Note: If uses raise issue that when they refresh page it doesn't load its likely because the Error Page Configuration is Missing)

8. Set invalidation for the distribution

9. Navigate to the S3 Bucket for FinOps Center Application and to Permission. Edit Permission with the Policy from CloudFront

10. Navigate to Route 53 or Domain Controller and Create an A Record that is Domain Name of your distribution

Stack Configuration

FinOps Center creates IAM Roles and Policies. The Engineer deploying must have Administrative Privileges. (DO NOT INSTALL USING ROOT USER)

Upon Selecting Next you will be taken to the YAML form to complete the FinOps Center Installation.

Name Stack: No Requirements

Environment Parameter:

• Bucket of CUR

• Path to CUR Date - name/name/name/

• Athena DB Created by CUDOS Framework

  • CUDOS will create cid_cur name

  • Table name based on CUR creation naming

• Provide S3 Bucket for Frontend Application Install

Organization Roles

• Define your Organization Role Names

• Create your First Admin User and Email

Via CSV

The Chart of Account /Budget Files is a comma delimited file (csv). The hierarchy of file goes from left to right with the top or your organization being the left column to the lowest product/project in the 4th column. The First Row of the file will drive the labels of the application.

Sample File:

File Name

The Chart of Account File should be generated from your Core Accounting System that reflects your Hierarchy and Approved Budget Spending for AWS.Budgets (via file format) can be updated based on Customer requirements.

Customer_2025_true_2025-11-01_false_Budget_v1.csv

AWS Account w/ Delegated Admin

The New Account Onboarding Process for FinOps Center is facilitated by access to the Account Management API in the Management Account. Within an AWS Cloud Estate, one account can be configured to be Delegated Admin and is the account FinOps Center is installed.

Steps to Create Delegated Admin if not created

1. Creation of New Account - Customers are advised to create an account (if not existing already) that requires Delegated Admin privileges, particularly for services like Security Hub and Systems Manager. While the naming convention is flexible, this account is referred to as the CloudOps Account by Cloud Scal3.

AMI Configuration and Stack Launch

Learn how to configure and launch custom AMIs efficiently in your application stack for enhanced performance and scalability.

Navigate to the AWS Marketplace and Search for FinOps Center (FinOps-in-a-Box or Enterprise Versions)

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ATTENTION: FinOps Center will be deployed from CloudFormation via S3. The below instruction will create an EC2 deployment via and AMI. Upon creation, the EC2 instance will create the bucket with the CloudFormation Scripts and JSON to be used in lunch in CloudFormation. Upon completion (when the bucket and packages are deployed) the instance that is created can be shut down. During the installation, a EC2 Role needs to be created with IAM Scope defined below to enable the creation and copying of files for the CloudFormation Installation.

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Select Continue to Launch

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Launch through EC2

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Configure Instance to your companies standards. As note previously, the EC2 instanced provisioned is used to copy files to S3 for the FinOps Center deployment. We recommend a small instance (T3 Small) be used and can be shut down once the files are copied to S3.

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Prior to Launch → the IAM Instance Profile much have a Role with Policy to S3 Create Bucket and S3 Write Access for FinOps Center Installation Bucket. Add your AWS Account Number to below Policies.

Navigate to IAM and follow below Steps

Step 1: Create a New Role for EC2 or Validate an Existing Role has above Policy.

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JSON Policy - add account number of installed account.

Step 2: Create a Role

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Step 3: Add Policy to Role

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and Create Role

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Return to EC2 to Launch Instance

No Key is Required as the Instance can be delete upon Install

Launch Instance

Navigate to S3

As the EC2 starts up, a bucket will appear beginning with cdk (see below)

Once you see the cdk Bucket is created navigate back to the Marketplace Listing to Launch CloudFormation.

Launch CloudFormation

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Note: All environment installation are “ Fresh Installs”. There is no separate installation pipeline between SDLC environment.