AWS Cloud Financial Management for Builders

Who is the course for

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

What we teach you

• 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

Required skills

We recommend that attendees of this course have: Architecting on AWS.

Course outline

Day 1

Module 0: Couse 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