Learning Objectives
The Objectives of this course are as follows:
- 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
Target Audience
The course is intended for:
- Enterprise Finance Stakeholders
Prerequisite Experience
- AWS Cloud for Finance Professionals
- AWS Cloud Practitioner Essentials
- AWS Cloud Essentials for Business Leaders
Course Outline
- Cloud spending decisions
- AWS pricing
- Cost drivers
- AWS Well-Architected Framework
- AWS Cloud Value Framework
- Cloud Financial Management
- Estimate cloud workload costs
- Budget and forecast cloud costs
- Improve cloud financial predictability
Measurement and Accountability
- KPIs and unit metrics
- Cost visibility and monitoring
- Cost allocation and accountability
- Cost allocation building blocks
- Usage optimizations
- Commitment-based purchase options
- Cost optimization
Cloud Financial Operations
- Organizational change for CFM
- Organization models for CFM
- Governance, control, and agility
- AWS governance and control building blocks
- Automated-based governance using AWS services
Financial Transformation and Innovation
- Keys to financial innovation
- Financial transformation
