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AWS Cloud for Finance Professionals

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2 days
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€ 1.290,-
plus VAT.
€ 1.535,10
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Booking number
33899
Venue
Online
3 Events
€ 1.290,-
plus VAT.
€ 1.535,10
incl. VAT.
Booking number
33899
Venue
Online
3 Events
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This course is part of the certified Master Class "Machine Learning Engineer". If you book the entire Master Class, you save over 15 percent compared to booking this individual module.
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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.

Final examination
Recommended for

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.

Start dates and details

Form of learning

Learning form

5.6.2025
Online
Places free
Implementation secured
Online
Places free
Implementation secured
4.9.2025
Online
Places free
Implementation secured
Online
Places free
Implementation secured
6.11.2025
Online
Places free
Implementation secured
Online
Places free
Implementation secured

The training is carried out in cooperation with an authorized training partner.
For the purpose of implementation, participant data will be transferred to the training partner and the training partner assumes responsibility for the processing of these data.
Please take note of the corresponding privacy policy.

Do you have questions about training?
Call us on +49 761 595 33900 or write to us at service@haufe-akademie.de or use the contact form.