AWS Cloud for Finance Professionals

2 days

English

In Kooperation mit

Gain the foundational knowledge that you need to manage, optimize and plan your cloud spend, and influence your organization’s builders to be more accountable and cost-conscious from an expert AWS instructor.

Content

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.

Day 1
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

Day 2
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

Benefits

Defining cloud business value
Estimating costs associated with current and future cloud workloads
Using tools to report, monitor, allocate, optimize, and plan AWS spend
Optimizing cloud spending and usage through pricing models
Establishing best practices with Cloud Financial Management (CFM) and Cloud Financial Operations (Cloud FinOps)
Implementing financial governance and controls
Driving finance organization innovation

Instructor

Wafi Dahman

Vladimir Sabo

Henrique Alves

Methods

This course includes instructor lecture, presentations, demonstrations, and group exercises/discussions.

Who should attend

Enterprise finance stakeholders who want to learn how to:

Maximize cloud business value
Use CFM best practices
Help finance teams innovate with AWS

This course is intended for the following job roles:

Financial Builder

We recommend have attended the following course or equivalent knowledge is required:

AWS Security Essentials.