AWS Cloud Financial Management for Builders

3 Days

18 CPD hours

This course is intended for:
Solutions architects
Developers
Cost-optimization leads
System administrators

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 for individuals who seek an understanding of how to manage, optimize, and predict costs as you run workloads on AWS. You learn how to implement architectural best practices, explore cost optimization strategies, and design patterns to help you architect cost-efficient solutions on AWS.

Module 0: Couse Overview

• Course introduction
  

Module 1: Introduction to Cloud Financial Management

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

Module 2: Resource Tagging

• Tagging resources
  Hands-On Lab: Cost optimization: Control Resource Consumption Using Tagging and AWS Config

Module 3: Pricing and Cost

• Fundamentals of pricing
  AWS Free Tier
  Volume discounts
  Savings 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
  Hands-On 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
  Hands-On 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
  Hands-On 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
  Hands-On 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
  Hands-On Lab: Cost optimization: Reduce Compute Costs Using AWS Instance Scheduler

Module 10: Course Summary

• Course review