AWS Cloud Financial Management for Builders

In this course, you will learn to:

• Explain the cost of core AWS services
• Determine and predict costs associated with current and future cloud workloads
• Use strategies and best practices to reduce AWS costs
• Use AWS tools to manage, monitor, alert, and optimize your AWS spend
• Apply strategies to monitor service costs and usage
• Implement governance standards, including resource tagging, account structure, provisioning, permissions, and access

This course is intended for:

• Solutions architects
• Developers
• Cost-optimization leads
• System administrators

We recommend that attendees of this course have:
• Architecting on AWS classroom training

Day 1 Module 0: Course Overview

• Course introduction

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

Day 2 Module 5: Architecting for Cost: Compute

• Evolution of compute efficiency
• Amazon EC2 right-sizing
• Purchasing options
• Architect for Amazon EC2 Spot Instance
• Impact of software licensing
• 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

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

Module 10: Course Summary

• Course review