Governance & Evidence

Every cost decision, documented.

CoreFinOps produces audit-ready records for every cost action taken across your cloud — so finance, security, and compliance teams can answer questions in minutes, not days.

Why evidence matters

For regulated industries, fast-growing startups, and any team with a board, finance committee, or security auditor — "we optimized cloud costs" isn't enough. You need to show what changed, who approved it, when it ran, and what it saved.

CoreFinOps produces that record by default. Not as an add-on. Not as an export job. As the normal output of doing FinOps.

What's in an evidence record

Every action — whether automated by CoreFinOps or manually executed by your team — produces a record that includes:

Action summary

What was done, to which resources

Triggering condition

The policy, recommendation, or manual request that initiated it

Approver chain

Every person who reviewed and authorized the action

Before/after state

Resource configuration and cost profile, pre- and post-action

Projected vs. realized savings

What was expected, what actually happened

Rollback status

Whether the action is still reversible, and for how long

Evidence hash

Cryptographic integrity check for audit submissions

Export to PDF, CSV, or feed into SIEM/GRC tools via API.

Approvals that reflect your org

Role-based approval chains

Different approvers for dev, staging, production, and critical workloads.

Amount-based thresholds

Auto-approve under $100 impact. Require director sign-off over $10,000.

Delegated approvals

Route to the right person when the primary approver is out.

Emergency override

Break-glass workflow for incident response, with full evidence capture.

Compliance-ready out of the box

SOC 2

Action logs map directly to change-management controls.

FinOps Foundation

Coverage across Inform, Optimize, and Operate phases.

Internal audit

Self-serve report generation for quarterly reviews.

HIPAA / PCI DSS / FedRAMP

Evidence records satisfy change-tracking requirements.

See what audit-ready FinOps looks like.

Book a demo and we'll show you a real evidence record — from triggering condition to signed export.