Cloud Cost Management platforms (often called FinOps) ingest billing data from cloud providers, Kubernetes clusters, and SaaS subscriptions to allocate, forecast, and optimize cloud spend across teams, services, and products. Core capabilities include cost allocation and tagging hygiene, unit-cost economics (cost per customer, per feature, per request), commitment management (Reserved Instances, Savings Plans, committed-use discounts), anomaly detection on spend, rightsizing recommendations, Kubernetes-specific cost allocation (namespace, pod, label-based), and chargeback/showback reporting to engineering and finance stakeholders. The category aligns with the FinOps Foundation framework — a practitioner discipline combining finance, engineering, and business alignment around variable cloud spend.