cloud-finops plugin
Expert FinOps guidance for cloud, AI, SaaS and data-platform spend. Ask Claude how to reduce a bill, size a commitment, allocate shared costs or justify AI spend, and it answers with billing mechanics, decision rules and worked examples, not generic advice. Cloud: AWS, Azure, GCP, OCI, Kubernetes and on-premises or hybrid estates, including Savings Plans, Reserved Instances, Azure Hybrid Benefit and contract negotiation. AI: Anthropic, Bedrock, Azure OpenAI, Vertex AI, open-weight model APIs, AI coding tools, agent costs, self-hosted vs managed inference. Data platforms: Databricks, Snowflake, Microsoft Fabric. FinOps practice: allocation, showback and chargeback, forecasting, operating model, FOCUS multi-cloud cost data, tagging, anomalies, KPIs, workload onboarding, SaaS and IT asset management, GreenOps. Waste playbooks: 44 runbooks for waste patterns such as idle NAT gateways, orphaned disks, snapshot sprawl, unused reservations, oversized GPUs and coding-agent token waste. Each gi
How to install the cloud-finops plugin
Run both commands inside Claude Code. The first adds the marketplace once; the second installs the plugin.
/plugin marketplace add OptimNow/cloud-finops-skills
/plugin install cloud-finops@optimnowWhat's inside cloud-finops
1 part read from the plugin's own files.
Skills 1
Claude loads it when the task matches- cloud-finops
Provides expert guidance for managing and optimizing costs across cloud, AI, SaaS, and hybrid technology estates.
Using cloud-finops in Claude Code
Skills need no command. Claude reads them when your request matches what they describe.
Update, turn off or remove
- Update the plugin (shell)
- claude plugin update cloud-finops@optimnow
- Refresh the marketplace
- /plugin marketplace update optimnow
- Turn it off for now
- /plugin disable cloud-finops@optimnow
- Remove it
- /plugin uninstall cloud-finops@optimnow
Skills in cloud-finops
- cloud-finopsOptimNow/cloud-finops-skills
Provides expert guidance for managing and optimizing costs across cloud, AI, SaaS, and hybrid technology estates.
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cloud-finops plugin questions
How do I install the cloud-finops plugin?
In Claude Code run /plugin marketplace add OptimNow/cloud-finops-skills, then /plugin install cloud-finops@optimnow.
What does the cloud-finops plugin include?
cloud-finops bundles 1 skill.
How do I update or remove the cloud-finops plugin?
Update it with claude plugin update cloud-finops@optimnow in your shell, or from the Installed tab of /plugin. Remove it with /plugin uninstall cloud-finops@optimnow.