AWS Cloud Financial Management for Builders

Program Code: 3030

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Overview

The Amazon Web Services (AWS) authorized AWS Cloud Financial Management for Builders course is designed for individuals who are looking to gain a thorough understanding of how to manage, optimize, and predict costs as they run workloads on AWS. Through the course, participants will also learn how to implement architectural best practices, explore cost optimization strategies, and design patterns to help architect cost-efficient solutions on AWS.

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Course Delivery

This course is available in the following formats:

Live Classroom
Duration: 3 days

Live Virtual Classroom
Duration: 3 days

What You'll learn

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

Outline

Module 1: Introduction to Cloud Financial Management

Introduction to Cloud Financial Management
Four pillars of Cloud Financial Management

Module 2: Resource Tagging

Tagging resources
Lab: Cost optimization: control resource consumption using tagging and AWS configuration

Module 3: Pricing and Cost

Fundamentals of pricing
AWS free tier
Volume discounts
Saving 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
Lab: Cost Optimization: Deploy Ephemeral Environments using Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling

Module 5: Architecting for Cost: Compute

Evolution of compute efficiency
Amazon EC2 right-sizing
Purchasing options
Architect for Amazon EC2 Spot Instance
Impact of software licensing
Demonstration: Compute optimizer
Demonstration: Spot instance advisor
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
Lab: Cost optimization: Reduce data transfer costs using Amazon CloudFront and EndPoints

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
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
Lab: Cost optimization: Reduce compute costs using AWS Instance Scheduler

Prerequisites

To attend this course, participants need to have:

Basic Linux administration experience
Basic network administration experience
Basic knowledge of containers and Kubernetes
Completed the Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service Primer
Completed the AWS Cloud Practitioner Essentials course or have equivalent real-world experience