In this episode of Cloud Control, host Shon Harris and Sara Gadallah, Principal Cloud FinOps Analyst at Atlassian and a FinOps Foundation Ambassador discuss the role FinOps plays in CloudOps. FinOps is a rapidly transforming landscape that plays a crucial role in driving business growth, efficiency, and transparency. Sara shares her journey into FinOps, the practices of FinOps, and how collaboration between different teams is essential in taking informed decisions on cloud cost optimizations. They also discuss the importance of continuous collaboration and education, the culture change needed to drive engineers to see cost as another operational metric, and the alignment of FinOps and data security.