AWS Cloud Financial Management for Builders

Part 1: Couse Overview

1. Course introduction

Part 2: Introduction to Cloud Financial Management

1. Four pillars of Cloud Financial Management

Part 3: Resource Tagging

1. Tagging Resources
2. Hands-On Lab: Cost optimization: Control Resource Consumption Using Tagging and AWS Config

Part 4: Pricing and Cost

1. Fundamentals of pricing
2. AWS Free Tier
3. Volume discounts
4. Savings plans and Reserved Instances
5. Demonstration: AWS Pricing Calculator

Part 5: AWS Billing, Reporting, and Monitoring

1. Understanding AWS invoices
2. Reporting and planning
3. AWS Cost Explorer
4. AWS Budgets
5. Demonstration: AWS Billing Console
6. Demonstration: AWS Cost Explorer
7. Demonstration: Trusted Advisor

Part 6: Architecting for Cost: Compute

1. Evolution of compute efficiency
2. Amazon EC2 right-sizing
3. Purchasing options
4. Architect for Amazon EC2 Spot Instance
5. Impact of software licensing
6. Demonstration: Compute Optimizer
7. Demonstration: Spot Instance Advisor

Part 7: Architecting for Cost: Networking

1. Data transfer costs
2. Understand data costs for different services
3. How to triage network costs
4. Hands-On Lab: Cost optimization: Reduce Data Transfer Costs Using Amazon CloudFront and Endpoints

Part 8: Architecting for Cost: Storage

1. Amazon EBS cost, pricing, and best practices
2. Amazon S3 cost, pricing, and best practices
3. Amazon EFS cost, pricing, and best practices

Part 9: Architecting for Cost: Databases

1. Amazon RDS cost, pricing, and best practices
2. Amazon Aurora cost, pricing, and best practices
3. Amazon DynamoDB cost, pricing, and best practices
4. Amazon ElastiCache cost, pricing, and best practices
5. Amazon Redshift cost, pricing, and best practices

Part 10: Cost Governance

1. Setting up AWS Organizations
2. AWS Systems Manager

Part 11: Course Summary

• Attend one of Architecting on AWS, Developing on AWS, or Systems Operations on AWS

• 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 optimize your AWS spend
• Apply strategies to monitor service costs and usage
• Implement governance standards, including resource tagging, account structure, provisioning, permissions, and access

A full refund will be issued for class cancellations made at least 15 business days before the course begins. Payment is non‑refundable for cancellations or reschedules made within 15 business days from the course start date and for No‑Shows (students who do not attend class).
For reschedules made within 15 business days from the course start date, students must reschedule immediately for a current, published course, up to a maximum of 90 days from the original date.
A student may reschedule a class or exam up to 2 times. Any additional reschedules will not be allowed.