We recommend that attendees of this course have:

• Cloud Computing and AWS from the digital version of AWS Cloud for Finance Professionals

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

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