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More complex skills are increasingly required as new cloud technologies, such as AI, machine learning, automation, and data ingestion, are implemented. Due to the scarcity of these skills, wages in the FinOps field are rising.
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FinOps metrics are becoming more complex and nuanced because of how dynamic cloud cost management has become and the wide variety of cloud-native organizations.
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The State of FinOps 2022 Study by the FinOps Foundation indicates that the most pressing challenges for survey respondents are: Getting engineers to take action on cost optimization (30%), Accurate forecasting of spend (29%), Organizational adoption of FinOps (22%), Enabling automation (20%), Reducing waste or unused resources (19%), and Aligning finance/procurement teams with technical/engineering teams (16%).