AWS Cloud for Finance Professionals

Length 2 days

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Why study this course

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, optimise, and plan cloud spend. You will learn how to influence your organisation’s builders to be more accountable and cost conscious. Finally, you will consider how you can use AWS to innovate in your finance organisation.

This course includes presentations, activities, demonstrations, videos, assessments, and group exercises.

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What you’ll learn

This course is designed to teach participants how to:

Define cloud business value
Estimate costs associated with current and future cloud workloads
Use tools to report, monitor, allocate, optimise, and plan AWS spend
Optimise 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 organisation innovation

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 enterprise finance stakeholders who want to learn how to maximise cloud business value, use CFM best practices, and help finance teams innovate with AWS.

Course subjects

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

Module 4: Cost Optimisation

Usage optimisations
Commitment-based purchase options
Activity 4.1: Cost optimisation

Module 5: Cloud Financial Operations

Organisational change for CFM
Organisation models for CFM
Activity 5.1: Organisational models
Establish a cost-aware organisational 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

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

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 Leaders

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.