Get insights on managing cloud spend efficiently from an expert instructor.
In this course, you will learn how finance professionals can use Amazon Web Services (AWS) to adopt the cloud in a fiscally responsible manner. You will gain foundational knowledge to help you manage, optimize, and plan cloud spend. In this course, you will learn how to influence your organization’s builders to be more accountable and cost-conscious. Finally, you will consider how you can use AWS to innovate in your finance organization.
Course Objectives
- Define cloud business value
- Estimate costs associated with current and future cloud workloads
- Use tools to report, monitor, allocate, optimize, and plan AWS spend
- Optimize cloud spending and usage through pricing models
- Establish best practices with Cloud Financial Management (CFM) and Cloud Financial Operations (Cloud FinOps)
- Implement financial governance and controls
- Drive finance organization innovation
Prerequisite
Recommended
Course Outline
- Module 1: Introduction
- Cloud spending decisions
- AWS pricing
- Cost drivers
- AWS Well-Architected Framework
- AWS Cloud Value Framework
- Activity 1.1: Cloud value metrics
- Cloud Financial Management
- Activity 1.2: Cloud Financial Management outcomes
- Module 2: Planning and Forecasting
- Estimate cloud workload costs
- Activity 2.1: Build and refine a cost estimate
- Budget and forecast cloud costs
- Improve cloud financial predictability
- Module 3: Measurement and Accountability
- KPIs and unit metrics
- Cost visibility and monitoring
- Demonstration 3.1: Tools for cost visibility, tools for cost monitoring
- Cost allocation and accountability
- Cost allocation building blocks
- Module 4: Cost Optimization
- Usage optimizations
- Commitment-based purchase options
- Activity 4.1: Cost optimization
- Module 5: Cloud Financial Operations
- Organizational change for CFM
- Organization models for CFM
- Activity 5.1: Organizational models
- Establish a cost-aware organizational culture
- Governance, control, and agility
- AWS governance and control building blocks
- Automated-based governance using AWS services
- Module 6: Financial Transformation and Innovation
- Keys to financial innovation
- Financial transformation
- Activity 6.1: Solutions for financial innovation
- Module 7: Resources and Next Steps
- Module resources
- Next steps
This course is available for "remote" learning and will be available to anyone with access to an internet device with a microphone (this includes most models of computers, tablets). Classes will take place with a "Live" instructor at the date/times listed below.
Upon registration, the instructor will send along additional information about how to log-on and participate in the class.