We are pleased to announce the launch of new digital training courses focused on AWS Cloud Financial Management. These four one-hour sessions are designed to familiarize you with essential AWS solutions that cater to your FinOps needs and provide cost optimization techniques for frequently utilized AWS services.
Enhancing Your CFM Practices
Effective Cloud Financial Management (CFM) is critical for sustainable cloud adoption. Successful CFM can be amplified when engineers and business leaders share a unified understanding of FinOps tasks and their significance, as well as a structured approach to addressing them. The industry trend of “shifting left” emphasizes proactively integrating cost considerations early in the cloud development process, allowing for decisions that account for costs alongside other factors, such as functionality and availability.
The AWS CFM framework and service portfolio enable you to more effectively plan, analyze, optimize, and govern expenditures and resource usage. When formulating your FinOps strategies, it’s crucial to engage the right personnel and incorporate suitable tools throughout the process.
Overview of Cloud Financial Management Digital Training Courses
The AWS Cloud Financial Management digital training courses are tailored for leaders, builders, and FinOps practitioners, equipping them with the tools and best practices for managing Cloud Financial Management effectively. These courses aim to enhance your FinOps skill set, which is in high demand, and improve your organization’s capabilities to derive greater value from cloud investments. You can leverage these courses to assess and validate your understanding of AWS CFM tools and resources, demonstrating your expertise in cost reporting, governance, and optimization.
Who Should Enroll in These Trainings?
These four training courses are intended for individuals interested in or responsible for managing cloud expenditures within their organizations. There are no prerequisites; however, the courses are designed with varying focuses to accommodate both business and technical perspectives. You can begin learning and developing your skills at your own pace.
Accessing the Trainings: Are They Free?
These one-hour training sessions are available at no cost through AWS Skill Builder. Simply search for “Cloud Financial Management” in the search bar to locate these free courses (see the screenshot below).
Guidelines for Taking the Trainings
You are free to start with any of the four courses. For a more structured learning experience, we recommend beginning with the first two foundational courses. After acquiring the foundational knowledge, you can either choose to conclude your learning there or challenge yourself with the more technical cost optimization solution courses aimed at engineering professionals.
- Course 1: Cloud Financial Management: FinOps Fundamentals and Strategies (Part I)
This course covers resources to help you assess and manage your cloud investments, including migration business cases, forecasting & budgeting, cloud cost reporting and visualization, and cost governance. - Course 2: Cloud Financial Management: FinOps Fundamentals and Strategies (Part II)
You’ll explore key CFM use cases such as cost optimization and allocation, gaining insights into AWS pricing strategies and methods for improving cost-efficiency. There’s also a section for those managing sustainability targets, focusing on tracking carbon emissions associated with AWS use. - Course 3: Cost Optimization Solutions for FinOps (Part I)
This course delves into technical implementations for optimizing costs related to AWS compute (Amazon EC2, AWS Lambda), storage (Amazon S3, Amazon EFS, Amazon EBS), and database services (Amazon RDS, Amazon Aurora, Amazon DynamoDB, Amazon ElastiCache). - Course 4: Cost Optimization Solutions for FinOps (Part II)
This course covers technical implementations for cost optimization related to AWS Data Transfer (Internet, between/within AWS Regions), Networking (e.g., Amazon VPC, NAT Gateways, Elastic Load Balancing, VPN), Analytics (Amazon Athena, Amazon EMR, Amazon Redshift, Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka), Containers (Amazon EKS, Amazon ECS), along with AI/ML and generative AI services (Amazon SageMaker, Amazon Bedrock, Amazon Q, Amazon CodeWhisper).
Conclusion
We are dedicated to assisting you in achieving significant cost savings through CFM solutions and educational resources. By collaborating with you to maximize your investments today, we can create enduring benefits for both your organization and ours over time. We extend our gratitude to the subject matter experts involved in the conceptualization, creation, and launch of these courses. For additional insights on the topic, you might want to check out this excellent resource. We value your feedback as we continually improve these offerings and develop new courses. For those interested in exploring further, you can read this related blog post.
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