Duration

3 days

Audience:

Employees of federal, state and local governments; and businesses working with the government.

Prerequisites

Attended one of Architecting on AWS, Developing on AWS, or Systems Operations on AWS

Course Description:

This course is for individuals who seek an understanding of how to manage, optimize, and predict costs as you run workloads on AWS. You learn how to implement architectural best practices, explore cost optimization strategies, and design patterns to help you architect cost-efficient solutions on AWS.

What You’ll Learn

  • 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

Who Needs to Attend

  • Solutions architects
  • Developers
  • Cost-optimization leads
  • System administrators
  • Cloud savvy technical learners who need to understand building and operating cost-efficient architectures

Course Outline

  • Module 0: Course Overview
  • Module 1: Introduction to Cloud Financial Management
  • Module 2: Resource Tagging
  • Module 3: Pricing and Cost
  • Module 4: AWS Billing, Reporting, and Monitoring
  • Module 5: Architecting for Cost: Compute
  • Module 6: Architecting for Cost: Networking
  • Module 7: Architecting for Cost: Storage
  • Module 8: Architecting for Cost: Databases
  • Module 9: Cost Governance
  • Module 10: Course Summary