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FinOps

Cloud Burn

The FinOps Workshop Kit

Five games. One mission: stop the bleeding.

Cloud Burn is a five game FinOps workshop kit that teaches cloud cost management, accountability, and governance through play. From provisioning chaos to multi cloud billing nightmares to incident response, each game is a standalone 30 minute session that can be played individually or sequenced into a full day workshop.

How to play

One turn, start to finish.

  1. Spin Up

    Draw a Resource card, provision it to your environment.

  2. Spike

    Event cards cause unexpected usage spikes.

  3. Own It

    Assign budget owners before the billing round.

  4. Bill

    Calculate the round's total cost. Lowest team cost wins.

  • Five standalone 30-minute FinOps games

  • Learn cloud cost management through play

  • Play individually or sequence into a full-day workshop

The 5 Games

  1. Spin It Up

    The provisioning chaos game

  2. Who Owns The Bill?

    The accountability game

  3. Three Clouds One Bill

    The multi cloud chaos game

  4. Firefighter

    The incident response game

  5. Crawl · Walk · Run

    The FinOps maturity game

Players
4–20 players
Time
30 min per game
Age
Ages 14+
Use case
FinOps and cloud cost workshops

How facilitators use it

Open a session

Start the first round without a briefing. Hand out cards, explain the objective in 60 seconds, and let people learn the mechanics by playing. The moment it clicks in round two is worth more than ten minutes of explanation.

Drive the debrief

Ask one open question and let the room run with it. Players reference their own moves, so the discussion is already in front of you. Shared language and shared experience do the rest.

Pair with a guide

Run it standalone, or pair it with the structured facilitation guide included in the box. The guide adds pre session framing, timed facilitation notes, and a full debrief script.

These are professional workshop tools, not party games. Each one is built around real industry knowledge and designed for organizations, and the price reflects that. See current pricing on The Game Crafter.

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SpielLogic builds card games and workshop tools for enterprises, consultants, and facilitators who are tired of slide decks that nobody remembers. Every game is designed around a real business problem and built to be played in a conference room with a mixed audience. The format works because experience beats explanation. Every SpielLogic game runs standalone or pairs with a structured facilitation guide you can run yourself.