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This course is for individuals who seek an understanding of how to manage, optimize, and predict costs as you run workloads on AWS. You learn how to implement architectural best practices, explore cost optimization strategies, and design patterns to help you architect cost-efficient solutions on AWS.

Activities

This course includes presentations, hands-on labs, and demonstrations.

Intended audience

This course is intended for:

Solutions architects
Developers
Cost-optimization leads
System administrators

We recommend that attendees of this course have:

Architecting on AWS classroom training

In this course, you will learn to:

Explain the cost of core AWS services
Determine and predict costs associated with current and future cloud workloads
Use strategies and best practices to reduce AWS costs
Use AWS tools to manage, monitor, alert, and optimize your AWS spend
Apply strategies to monitor service costs and usage
Implement governance standards, including resource tagging, account structure, provisioning, permissions, and access

Day 1

Module 0: Couse Overview

Course introduction
Module 1: Introduction to Cloud Financial Management
Introduction to Cloud Financial Management
Four pillars of Cloud Financial Management

Module 2: Resource Tagging

Tagging resources
Hands-On Lab: Cost optimization: Control Resource Consumption Using Tagging and AWS Config

Module 3: Pricing and Cost

Fundamentals of pricing
AWS Free Tier
Volume discounts
Savings plans and Reserved Instances
Demonstration: AWS Pricing Calculator

Module 4: AWS Billing, Reporting, and Monitoring

Understanding AWS invoices
Reporting and planning
AWS Cost Explorer
AWS Budgets
Demonstration: AWS Billing Console
Demonstration: AWS Cost Explorer
Demonstration: Trusted Advisor
Hands-On Lab: Cost optimization: Deploy Ephemeral Environments Using Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling
AWS Cloud Financial Management for Builders

Day 2

Module 5: Architecting for Cost: Compute

Evolution of compute efficiency
Amazon EC2 right-sizing
Purchasing options
Amazon CloudWatch monitoring and automation
Architect for Amazon EC2 Spot Instance
Automate the infrastructure provision
Manage capacity to optimize resource usage
Impact of software licensing
Serverless solutions to reduce costs
Demonstration: Compute Optimizer
Demonstration: Spot Instance Advisor
Hands-On Lab: Cost optimization: Right Size Amazon EC2 Instances Using Amazon CloudWatch Metrics

Module 6: Architecting for Cost: Networking

Data transfer costs
Understand data costs for different services
How to triage network costs
Hands-On Lab: Cost optimization: Reduce Data Transfer Costs Using Amazon CloudFront and Endpoints
AWS Cloud Financial Management for Builders

Day 3

Module 7: Architecting for Cost: Storage

Amazon EBS cost, pricing, and best practices
Amazon S3 cost, pricing, and best practices
Amazon EFS cost, pricing, and best practices
Hands-On Lab: Cost optimization: Reduce Storage Costs Using Amazon S3 Lifecycle Management

Module 8: Architecting for Cost: Databases

Amazon RDS cost, pricing, and best practices
Amazon Aurora cost, pricing, and best practices
Amazon DynamoDB cost, pricing, and best practices
Amazon ElastiCache cost, pricing, and best practices
Amazon Redshift cost, pricing, and best practices

Module 9: Cost Governance

Setting up AWS Organizations
AWS Systems Manager
Module 10: Course Summary
Course review
Hands-On Lab: Cost optimization: Reduce Compute Costs Using AWS Instance Scheduler

Upcoming Trainings

Join our public courses in our United Kingdom facilities. Private class trainings will be organized at the location of your preference, according to your schedule.

Classroom / Virtual Classroom

01 July 2024