AWS Cloud Financial Management for Builders

3 days

English

In Kooperation mit

This course is for individuals who seek an understanding of how to manage, optimize, and predict costs as you run workloads on AWS.

Content

You learn how to implement architectural best practices, explore cost optimization strategies, and design patterns to help you architect cost-efficient solutions on AWS.

Day 1

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
AWS Cloud Financial Management for Builders
AWS Classroom Training

Day 2

Module 5: Architecting for Cost: Compute

Evolution of compute efficiency
Amazon EC2 right-sizing
Purchasing options
Amazon CloudWatch monitoring and automation
Architect for Amazon EC2 Spot Instance
Automate the infrastructure provision
Manage capacity to optimize resource usage
Impact of software licensing
Serverless solutions to reduce costs
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
AWS Cloud Financial Management for Builders
AWS Classroom Training

Day 3

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

Module 10: Course Summary

Course review
Hands-On Lab: Cost optimization: Reduce Compute Costs Using AWS Instance Scheduler

Benefits

Explaining the cost of core AWS services
Determining and predicting costs associated with current and future cloud workloads
Using strategies and best practices to reduce AWS costs
Using AWS tools to manage, monitor, alert, and optimize your AWS costs
Applying strategies to monitor service costs and usage
Implementing governance standards, including resource tagging, account structure, provisioning, permissions, and access

Instructor

Wafi Dahman

Vladimir Sabo

Henrique Alves

Methods

This course includes instructor lecture, presentations, hands-on labs, demonstrations, and group exercises/discussions.

Who should attend

This course is intended for the following job roles:

Solution Architect
CloudOps
DevOps
Financial Builder

We recommend that attendees of this course have knowlege on "Architecting on AWS".