AWS Cloud Financial Management for Builders

Length 3 days

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Why study this course

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

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

This course includes presentations, hands-on labs, and demonstrations.

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What you’ll learn

This course is designed to teach participants how to:

Explain the cost of core AWS services
Determine and estimate 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 optimise your AWS spend
Apply strategies to monitor service costs and usage
Implement governance standards, including resource tagging, account structure, provisioning, permissions, and access

AWS at Lumify Work

Lumify Work is an official AWS Training Partner for Australia, New Zealand, and the Philippines. Through our Authorised AWS Instructors, we can provide you with a learning path that’s relevant to you and your organisation, so you can get more out of the cloud. We offer virtual and face-to-face classroom-based training to help you build your cloud skills and enable you to achieve industry-recognised AWS Certification.

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Who is the course for?

This course is intended for:

Solutions architects
Developers
Cost-optimisation leads
System administrators

Course subjects

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 optimisation: 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 optimisation: Deploy Ephemeral Environments Using Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling

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 Optimiser
Demonstration: Spot Instance Advisor
Hands-On Lab: Cost optimisation: 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 optimisation: Reduce Data Transfer Costs Using Amazon CloudFront and Endpoints

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 optimisation: 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 Organisations
AWS Systems Manager
Hands-On Lab: Cost optimisation: Reduce Compute Costs Using AWS Instance Scheduler

Please note: This is an emerging technology course. Course outline is subject to change as needed.

Prerequisites

It is recommended that attendees have previously completed the Architecting on AWS course.

Terms & Conditions

The supply of this course by Lumify Work is governed by the booking terms and conditions. Please read the terms and conditions carefully before enrolling in this course, as enrolment in the course is conditional on acceptance of these terms and conditions.