Live-Online: AWS Cloud Financial Management for Builders

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 

• 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 

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.