FinOps Center's Installation Components

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Written By Chris Zeller (Super Administrator)

Updated at October 2nd, 2024

FinOps Center's Installation requires prep of your AWS Cloud Estate within the Management Account and the Deligated 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
  5. Create IAM Profile for FinOps Center Installation
  6. Subscribe and install FinOps Center Marketplace offering
  7. Launch EC2 to copy FinOps Center code to S3 Bucket
  8. Install FinOps Center from CloudFormation

Access Requirement 

  1. Admin - creating IAM Role