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Training: AWS Cloud for Finance Professionals

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.
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Description

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.

Course Objectives

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

Prerequisites

We recommend that attendees of this course have:

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

AWS Cloud Practitioner Essentials

AWS Cloud Essentials for Business Leader

Course duration / Price

2 days / € 1,250.00 (excl. tax) per person (DE)

Course outline

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

IMPORTANT: Please bring your notebook (Windows, Linux or Mac) to our trainings. If this is not possible, please contact us in advance.

The practical exercises are performed in prepared working environments available via web browser – no software needs to be installed. The course material is in English, spoken language can be in german or english. Other languages like spanish, portuguese or french, please contact us under training@tecracer.de

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