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AWS Cloud for Finance Professionals

AWS Cloud for Finance Professionals

In this course, you will learn how finance professionals can use Amazon Web Services (AWS) to adopt cloud in a fiscally responsible manner. You will gain foundational knowledge to help you manage, optimize, and plan cloud spend. You will learn how to influence your organization’s builders to be more accountable and cost conscious. Finally, you will consider how you can use AWS to innovate in your finance organization.

Training code
AWS-CFP
Duration
2 days
Level
Easy
Price
4400 zł
Who is it for?

This course is intended for enterprise finance stakeholders who want to learn how to maximize cloud business value, use CFM best practices, and help finance teams innovate with AWS.

Acquired skills

In this course, you will learn to:

  • Define cloud business value
  • Estimate costs associated with current and future cloud workloads
  • Use tools to report, monitor, allocate, optimize, and plan AWS spend
  • Optimize cloud spending and usage through pricing models
  • Establish best practices with Cloud Financial Management (CFM) and Cloud Financial Operations (Cloud FinOps)
  • Implement financial governance and controls
  • Drive finance organization innovation
Prerequisites

We recommend that attendees of this course have:

Scope of training

Module 1: Introduction

  • Cloud spending decisions
  • AWS pricing
  • Cost drivers
  • AWS Well-Architected Framework
  • AWS Cloud Value Framework
  • Activity 1.1: Cloud value metrics
  • Cloud Financial Management
  • Activity 1.2: Cloud Financial Management outcomes

Module 2: Planning and Forecasting

  • Estimate cloud workload costs
  • Activity 2.1: Build and refine a cost estimate
  • Budget and forecast cloud costs
  • Improve cloud financial predictability

Module 3: Measurement and Accountability

  • KPIs and unit metrics
  • Cost visibility and monitoring
  • Demonstration 3.1: Tools for cost visibility, tools for cost monitoring
  • Cost allocation and accountability
  • Cost allocation building blocks

Module 4: Cost Optimization

  • Usage optimizations
  • Commitment-based purchase options
  • Activity 4.1: Cost optimization

Module 5: Cloud Financial Operations

  • Organizational change for CFM
  • Organization models for CFM
  • Activity 5.1: Organizational models
  • Establish a cost-aware organizational culture
  • Governance, control, and agility
  • AWS governance and control building blocks
  • Automated-based governance using AWS services

Module 6: Financial Transformation and Innovation

  • Keys to financial innovation
  • Financial transformation
  • Activity 6.1: Solutions for financial innovation

Module 7: Resources and Next Steps

  • Module resources
  • Next steps

Enquire about the date and quotation

This training is available on request. Let us know and we will arrange a date and format (online/in-person).

We will respond with a proposed date within 24 hours
No obligation – simply enquiring does not reserve anything
Available exclusively for your team