Cloud governance
Enable hybrid cloud governance with policies and actionable recommendations
Flexera offers a powerful policy engine that enables your cloud governance teams to manage and control hybrid cloud use with out-of-the-box and extensible policies to automate governance of costs, operations, security and compliance.
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Automate cloud governance
Level-up cloud operations with pre-built policies for automating cloud governance
Control cloud use with over 150 out-of-the-box and custom policies to automate governance of costs, operations, security and compliance. Set policies to identify, alert and take action on misconfigured networking options, unsecured data storage and non-compliant resources.
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Allocate multi-cloud costs
Improve cloud spend management with cost allocation
Simplify cloud cost management across multiple platforms and work collaboratively with cloud resource owners to report, manage and optimize cloud spend.
Protect cloud resources
Leverage policies and automation to improve cloud security
Avoid security holes with policies that identify and alert on misconfigured networking options, unsecured data storage, non-compliant resources and policies that check for required configurations, such as backups or failover systems. Curate cloud access with a single pane of glass to control access to all your cloud providers.
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Multi-cloud costs
Govern your hybrid cloud activity in one place
Leverage automated governance and financial controls to realize the ROI of your hybrid FinOps strategy. With Flexera, you can track compliance with reserved instance pricing discounts and standardize security policies to close security holes. See beyond your IaaS spend and get visibility to cloud software license and SaaS spend with our integrated platform.
Supporting your multi-cloud environment
Support for all major public cloud providers
Flexera supports all major public cloud providers, including AWS, Azure, Google, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, Alibaba, Kubecost and Opencost. Additionally, the Common Bill Ingestion (CBI) feature allows the ingestion of public, private, and custom cloud billing data for easy ad-hoc analysis along-side billing data from other sources.
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When you talk about the overall savings we achieved [5%], 1-2% came from visibility into the data of the cloud spend using Flexera. One of the great features is the billing center, which helps in slicing and dicing the application costs for one particular application owner. They can have an overall view of their area without having 10 different dashboards.
Sonal Gupta, Hosting Manager and FinOps Practice Leader Carlsberg
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