Description
Course Content
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
Who should attend
- Enterprise finance stakeholders who want to learn how to:
- Maximize cloud business value
- Use CFM best practices
- Help finance teams innovate with AWS
Prerequisites
We recommend that attendees of this course have taken:
- Cloud Computing and AWS from the digital version of AWS Cloud for Finance Professionals
- AWS Cloud Essentials for Business Leaders (CEBL)
- AWS Cloud Practitioner Essentials (CP-ESS)
Course Objectives
In this course, you will learn to:
- 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
