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Gain the foundational knowledge that you need to manage, optimize and plan your cloud spend, and influence your organization’s builders to be more accountable and cost-conscious from an expert AWS instructor. In this 2-day, classroom training course you will learn to innovate within your finance organization.

In this course, you will learn how finance professionals can use Amazon Web Services (AWS) to adopt cloud in a fiscally responsible manner. You will gain foundational knowledge to help you manage, optimize, and plan cloud spend. 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.

Who should take this course

Enterprise finance stakeholders who want to learn how to:
Maximize cloud business value
Use CFM best practices
Help finance teams innovate with AWS

Cloud Computing and AWS from the digital version of AWS Cloud for Finance Professionals
We recommend that attendees of this course have taken AWS Cloud Practitioner Essentials and AWS Cloud Essentials for Business Leaders.

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

Activities

This course includes presentations, activities, demonstrations, videos, assessments, and group exercises

Day 1

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

Day 2

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

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

08 August 2024