AWS Cloud Financial Management for Builders

Day 1

Module 0: Course Overview

• Course introduction

Module 1: Cloud Financial Management

• Introduction to Cloud Financial Management
• Four pillars of Cloud Financial Management

Module 2: Cost Management Approach

• Implementing Cloud Financial Management
• Tagging resources
• Hands-On Lab: Cost optimization: Control resource consumption using tagging and AWS Config

Module 3: Pricing Basics

• Fundamentals of pricing
• AWS Free Tier
• Volume discounts
• Demonstration: AWS Pricing Calculator

Module 4: Optimize Purchases

• Savings plans and Reserved Instances
• Instance Reservations
• Savings plans vs Instance Reservations

Module 5: 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

Day 2

Module 6: Architecting for Cost: Compute and Optimization

• 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
• Hands-On Lab: Cost optimization: Right size Amazon EC2 instances using Amazon CloudWatch metrics
• Hands-On Lab: Cost optimization: Deploy ephemeral environments using Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling

Module 7: Architecting for Cost: Networking

• Data transfer costs
• Understand data costs for different services
• How to triage network costs
• Hands-On Lab: Cost Optimization: Reduce data transfer costs using Amazon CloudFront and endpoints

Day 3

Module 8: 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

Module 9: 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
• Hands-On Lab: Cost Optimization: Reduce storage costs using Amazon S3 Lifecycle management

Module 10: Cost Governance

• Setting up AWS Organizations
• AWS Systems Manager

Module 11: Course Summary

• Course review

Hands-On Lab:

In this course, you will learn to:

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

This course is intended for:

• Solutions architects
• Developers
• Cost-optimization leads
• System administrators