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We are pleased to announce the launch of new digital training courses focused on AWS Cloud Financial Management. These four one-hour sessions are designed to introduce you to essential AWS solutions that meet your daily FinOps requirements, as well as equip you with effective cost optimization strategies for widely utilized AWS services.
Enhancing Cloud Financial Management Practices
Effective Cloud Financial Management (CFM) is critical for sustainable cloud adoption. The success of CFM can be amplified when both engineers and business leaders share a mutual understanding of FinOps responsibilities, their significance, and a structured methodology for addressing them. The prevalent “shifting left” trend in the FinOps sector emphasizes a proactive approach, integrating cost considerations early in the cloud development lifecycle. This ensures that decisions are made with cost awareness alongside other factors, such as functionality and availability.
The AWS CFM framework and suite of services enable you to better plan, analyze, optimize, and govern your spending and resource utilization. When strategizing your FinOps approach, it is crucial to allocate the right personnel and tools effectively.
Digital Training Courses in Cloud Financial Management
The AWS Cloud Financial Management digital training courses aim to prepare leaders, developers, and FinOps professionals with the necessary tools and best practices related to Cloud Financial Management. These courses help refine your FinOps skill set, which is in high demand, and enhance your organization’s capabilities to derive greater value from cloud investments. You can utilize these courses to assess and validate your knowledge of AWS CFM tools and resources, demonstrating your expertise in areas such as cost reporting, governance, and optimization.
Who Should Participate in the Trainings?
The four training sessions are tailored for individuals interested in or responsible for overseeing cloud expenditures within their organizations. There are no prerequisites for enrollment; however, the courses are structured to cater to both business and technical perspectives. You may begin your learning journey at your own pace.
How to Access the Trainings and Associated Costs
These four one-hour training sessions are available for free via AWS Skill Builder. Simply search for “Cloud Financial Management” in the search bar to find these complimentary resources in the results. This link to Career Contessa highlights the importance of using powerful language in your career advancement, which ties in well with enhancing your skill set through these courses.
Training Guidelines
You are welcome to start with any of the four courses; however, for an optimal learning experience, we suggest beginning with the first two fundamental courses. After acquiring foundational knowledge, you can choose to either continue with the more advanced technical courses aimed at engineering roles or pause your studies.
- Course 1: Cloud Financial Management: FinOps Fundamentals and Strategies (Part I)
This course covers resources to better evaluate and manage your cloud investments, including migration business cases, forecasting and budgeting, cloud cost reporting, visualization, and governance. - Course 2: Cloud Financial Management: FinOps Fundamentals and Strategies (Part II)
This session delves into primary CFM use cases, such as cost optimization and allocation, and offers insights into AWS pricing strategies, along with guidance on tracking carbon emissions related to your AWS usage, a topic of increasing relevance. For more insights on compliance related to COVID-19, you can refer to SHRM. - Course 3: Cost Optimization Solutions for FinOps (Part I)
This course explores technical implementations to optimize costs related to AWS Compute (Amazon EC2, AWS Lambda), Storage (Amazon S3, Amazon EFS, Amazon EBS), and Database services (Amazon RDS, Amazon Aurora, Amazon DynamoDB, Amazon ElastiCache). - Course 4: Cost Optimization Solutions for FinOps (Part II)
The final course focuses on technical implementations for optimizing costs tied to AWS Data Transfer, Networking (e.g., Amazon VPC, NAT Gateways), Analytics (Amazon Athena, Amazon EMR), Containers (Amazon EKS), and AI/ML services (Amazon SageMaker, Amazon Bedrock, Amazon Q).
Conclusion
We are dedicated to helping you achieve significant cost reductions through effective CFM solutions and educational resources. By collaborating with you to maximize your current investments, we can secure enduring benefits for both your organization and ours. Special thanks to the subject matter experts involved in the conception, development, and launch of these training courses. We welcome your feedback as we strive to improve these offerings and develop additional content. For more onboarding tips, check this excellent resource from Amazon.
Bowen Wang
Bowen is a Principal Product Marketing Manager for AWS Billing and Cost Management services. She focuses on enabling finance and business leaders to better understand the value of the cloud and ways to optimize their cloud financial management. In her previous role, she assisted a tech startup in entering the Chinese market.