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In today's competitive landscape, more professionals are seeking to become certified Cloud FinOps Practitioners than ever before. Are you ready to stand out in the world of cloud financial management?

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This course is part of a series of training to prepare the viewer for the Cloud FinOps Practitioner Certification.
This training provides a comprehensive guide that introduces the principles and practices of Cloud FinOps, a framework for effectively managing cloud usage and costs. It provides a step-by-step roadmap to help organizations navigate the complexities of cloud financial management.
Viewers should understand the basics of how the cloud works. You should be familiar with the key services for compute and storage for the cloud providers your business is using. Additionally you should understand the billing and pricing models for these services.
Viewers will also need to understand financial processes around forecasting, budgeting, procurement, and allocations.

Viewers should understand the basics of how the cloud works. You should be familiar with the key services for compute and storage for the cloud providers your business is using. Additionally you should understand the billing and pricing models for these services.
Viewers will also need to understand financial processes around forecasting, budgeting, procurement, and allocations.

Gain a comprehensive understanding of what falls under the subject of Cloud FinOps
Understand the Cloud FinOps Framework
Understand Cloud FinOps principles, personas, phases, maturity, domains, and capabilities
Learn about all Cloud FinOps Capabilities
Learn how to adopt a Cloud FinOps practice
Learn how to manage commitment based discounts
Learn how to overcome the top Cloud FinOps challenges

01 - Course Introduction

Speaker introduction
Training overview and course summary
Motivation for this course
Audience for this course

02 - Introduction to Cloud FinOps

Overview of what Cloud FinOps is
5 steps to get started with Cloud FinOps

03 - Cloud FinOps Framework

Cloud FinOps Framework
Principles, Personas, Phases, Maturity, Domains, Capabilities

04 - Cloud FinOps Principles

Cloud FinOps Principles
Teams need to collaborate
Decisions are driven by business value of cloud
Everyone takes ownership for their cloud usage
Cloud FinOps data should be accessible and timely
A centralized team drives Cloud FinOps
Take advantage of the variable cost model of the cloud

05 - Cloud FinOps Personas

Cloud FinOps Personas
Cloud FinOps Practitioner
Executives
Business/Product Owner
Finance
Engineering and Operations
Procurement
Security
ITAM Leader / Practitioner

06 - Cloud FinOps Phases

Cloud FinOps Phases
Inform, Optimize, Operate

07 - Cloud FinOps Maturity Model

Cloud FinOps Maturity Model
Crawl, Walk, Run
Established, Enhanced, Excel

08 - Cloud FinOps Team

Executives need to understand Cloud FinOps and provide support top down
Ability for the team to reach out to all other groups within the organization
Members need strong verbal and written skills to partner, collaborate, drive, negotiate, evangelize, and train

09 - Cloud FinOps Common Language

Engineers, Finance, FinOps, Cloud use different vocabulary
Need to connect different disciplines

10 - Cloud FinOps Partnership and Collaboration

Cloud FinOps Practitioner
Executives
Business/Product Owner
Finance
Engineering and Operations
Procurement

11 - Cloud FinOps Domains

Cloud FinOps Domains
Understanding Cloud Usage and Cost
Performance Tracking & Benchmarking
Real-Time Decision Making
Cloud Rate Optimization
Cloud Usage Optimization
Organizational Alignment

12 - Cloud FinOps and Other Methodologies

DevOps, Agile, IT Asset Management (ITAM), IT Service Management (ITSM), Technology Business Management (TBM), the Cloud Service Provider Well-Architected Framework, Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD), Sustainability, and the Cloud Center of Excellence (CCoE)

13 - Cloud FinOps Capabilities Overview

14 - Cloud FinOps Capabilities

Measuring Unit Costs
Managing Shared Cost
Managing Anomalies
Forecasting
Data Ingestion & Normalization
Cost Allocation (Metadata & Hierarchy)
Data Analysis and Showback
Resource Utilization & Efficiency
Managing Commitment Based Discounts
Budget Management
Establishing a FinOps Decision & Accountability Structure
Intersection of Cloud FinOps & Sustainability
Workload Management & Automation
Onboarding Workloads
Intersection of FinOps & ITFM/TBM
Cloud Policy & Governance
Establishing FinOps Culture
FinOps Education & Enablement
Chargeback & Finance Integration

15- How to Adopt a Cloud FinOps Practice

Adopting FinOps Deck Oct 2021
Plan, socialize, prepare, launch, run

16 - How to Manage Commitment Based Discounts

This is a critical skill for rate reduction that can be done centrally
Deep dive in how to manage RIs & SPs (AWS), CUDs (GCP), Reservations (Azure)
I could also go over how to negotiate vendor contracts incl. strategy and best practice (will add time)

17 - How to Overcome the Top Cloud FinOps Challenges

Getting to unit economics
Implementing Cloud FinOps at scale
Empowering engineers to take action
Accurate forecasting
Reducing waste
Organizational adoption of Cloud FinOps
Fully allocating cloud spend
Enabling automation
Container cost reporting
Leadership buy in of Cloud FinOps
Allocating shared costs
Aligning finance with engineering
Managing commitment based discounts

18 - Course Wrap Up

Introducing FinOps Training Course in Norway

The Nordic country Norway, is in Northern Europe. Known for its stunning natural beauty, including fjords, mountains, and forests, Norway is also famous for its high standard of living and strong social welfare system. Norway's capital and largest city is Oslo. Tromsø, Bergen, Trondheim and Stavanger are the other tourist attracting cities of Norway.

Norway is a constitutional monarchy with King Harald V as the head of state. The country has a population of 5,425,270 as of January 2022. Norway is a relatively small country and has a relatively low population density, with much of its land area covered by forests, mountains, and fjords. Despite its small size, Norway is known for its rich cultural heritage, strong economy, and stunning natural beauty, which attracts millions of visitors every year. This Nordic country is also known for its winter sports, such as skiing and snowboarding, and is a popular destination for outdoor enthusiasts.

Norway has a long history of invention and is home to numerous more top-tier tech firms and research facilities, such as; Kongsberg Gruppen, Telenor, Atea, Evry and Gjensidige Forsikring.

Due to the country's high latitude, there are large seasonal variations in daylight. From late May to late July, the sun never completely descends beneath the horizon. Which attracts many tourists around the world to see the "Land of the Midnight Sun". Tourists mainly visit Sognefjord, Norway's Largest Fjord, Pulpit Rock, one of the most photographed sites in Norway and of course the capital; Oslo.

Oslo is considered the business center of Norway. It is the country's largest city and the capital of Norway. The city is home to many of Norway's largest and most important companies, as well as several international organizations and research institutions. Additionally, the city is a popular tourist destination, known for its scenic location on the Oslo Fjord, its many museums and cultural attractions, and its vibrant nightlife and dining scene. Some of the most popular museums in Oslo are The Norwegian Museum of Cultural History, The Nobel Peace Center, The National Museum of Art, Architecture, and Design, The Munch Museum and The Vigeland Museum.

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