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AWS Cloud Financial Management
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Optimize your AWS cloud for real savings!

CPF-eligible and several funding options up to 100%

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Experience an immersive, intensive training designed to immerse you in hands-on workshops and real case studies.
Learn by doing and build practical skills directly applicable to your future projects.

At the end of your journey, we assess your acquired skills, issue a certificate attesting to your expertise, and support you to ensure success in your professional projects.
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Training Description

This course teaches developers and engineers how to embed cost management practices into their cloud development and operations processes, using AWS tools to optimize spending and ensure efficient resource usage.

Who is this course for?

    The course is intended for a wide audience, including:
  • Financial Professionals: To better understand and control cloud-related costs.
  • Cloud Managers: To integrate a financial strategy into their cloud practices.
  • IT Managers: To collaborate with finance teams and optimize spending.
  • FinOps Analysts: To start or deepen their expertise in the FinOps discipline.
  • Cloud Project Managers: To effectively manage cloud budgets in their projects.
  • FinOps Leads looking to deepen advanced management skills.

Prerequisites

Basic knowledge of information systems.


Learning Objectives

By the end of this course, participants will be able to:

  • Master advanced cloud cost optimization strategies.
  • Automate FinOps processes for proactive cost management.
  • Establish robust and scalable financial governance.
  • Analyze complex financial data using customized dashboards.
  • Apply techniques for cloud forecasting and budget planning.

Course Program

Day 1: Understanding AWS financial management fundamentals

  • Introduction to financial management in the cloud.
  • AWS pricing models (on-demand, Savings Plans, Reserved Instances).
  • Overview of tools: AWS Billing, Cost Explorer and Budgets.
  • Track and analyze cloud costs
  • Using AWS Cost Explorer for cost analysis
  • Monitoring spending trends and detecting anomalies
  • Hands-on workshop: Analysis of real billing scenarios
  • Azure pricing models: pay-as-you-go, reservations, Savings Plans
Day 2: Implementing proactive cost optimization
  • Optimization techniques: rightsizing resources, shutting down unused services.
  • Using AWS Trusted Advisor and Compute Optimizer.
  • Case study: Analyze an architecture and implement optimizations.
  • Goal: Manage budgets and spending alerts.
  • Creating and managing budgets in AWS Budgets.
  • Configuring cost overrun alerts.
  • Workshop: Developing budget strategies for AWS projects.
Day 3: Integrating financial considerations and practical application
  • Impact of architectural choices on costs (storage, compute, network).
  • Strategies for efficient cloud design.
  • Automating cost control processes with AWS Lambda and the Billing APIs.
  • Final workshop: Designing a financially optimized AWS solution.
  • Presentation of results and group review.
  • Summary of AWS FinOps best practices.

Training Highlights

  • Alternating theory and practice for better mastery of concepts.
  • Specialized trainers with hands-on experience in Cloud and FinOps.
  • Access to online resources, live demos, and real case studies.
  • Training accessible to all, with content suitable for every level.

Teaching Methods & Tools Used

Live demonstrations.
Real case studies with practical solution analysis.
Group work and real-time sharing.
Feedback: sharing best practices and common pitfalls.


Assessment

Assessment is carried out in different ways:
MCQs to test understanding of the concepts covered.
Practical case studies to apply knowledge.
Ongoing assessment during practical sessions.


Normative References

  • Cloud Providers’ Well-Architected Framework
  • ISO/IEC 19086
  • FinOps Foundation
  • GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation)
  • NIST Cloud Computing Standards (SP 500-292)
  • ISO 27001 (Information Security)

  • Modalities

    Inter-company or remote
    In-company

    Inter-company or remote

    Duration: 3 days

    Price: €2000

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    In-company

    The duration and program can be customized to your company’s specific needs

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