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AWS Cloud Essentials for Business Leaders

  • CMDBID 1000878
  • Course Code AMWCEBL
  • Duration 0.5 Days
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Overview

This course is for business leaders who seek an overall understanding of the fundamental concepts of cloud computing. Learn how a cloud strategy can help you meet business objectives. The course dives into the business value of the cloud through customer examples, exploring industry trends, and the Cloud Value Framework, which helps you understand the business value of building on AWS by assessing cost and value impact.

Who should take this course

  • Line of Business (LoB) owners
  • IT leaders
  • Executives

Audience

This course is intended for:

- Line of business (LOB) owners, information technology (IT) leaders, and executives

Skills Gained

  • The role of information technology (IT) in an organization for business transformation
  • The customer value proposition for using the cloud across industries
  • The cloud business model
  • Key security practices of cloud computing
  • And much more

Prerequisites

No experience is needed.

Outline

Module 1: Course Introduction
Module 2: Information Technology for Business Transformation
  • Role of IT in an organization for business transformation
  • Brief history of IT
  • Legacy approach to IT
  • What drives customers to move from traditional infrastructure to the cloud
Module 3: Cloud Computing
  • Define cloud computing
  • Key characteristics of cloud technology
  • The cloud business model
  • Key security practices within the cloud
Module 4: Business Value of the Cloud
  • The customer value proposition
  • Identify who is using cloud computing
  • Industry trends
  • Customer examples
Module 5: The Cloud Value Framework
  • Introduction to the Cloud Value Framework
  • Cost Savings
  • Staff Productivity
  • Operational Resilience
  • Business Agility
Module 6: Business Value Activity
  • Using a fictional customer case study, we review and apply lessons learned from the course

Certification

Please note: Effective 15th August 2022 the labs for all AWS courses will be delivered through AWS Builder labs. In order to access these labs you will need to have an Amazon account (used for Amazon.com/.co.uk retail). You can choose to use your existing Amazon account or you can elect to set up a new account utilising a new email address (such as Hotmail, Gmail, Yahoo etc etc). You can set up your new Amazon account here.

Please ensure that you have set up this Amazon account set up in advance of attending your class. Your Amazon account credentials will be used to access the AWS Builder lab environment that you will utilise during your course.

In order to access your digital course materials you are required to set up a Gilmore account in advance of attending your course. To do this please follow this link

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Thinking about Onsite?

If you need training for 3 or more people, you should ask us about onsite training. Putting aside the obvious location benefit, content can be customised to better meet your business objectives and more can be covered than in a public classroom. Its a cost effective option. One on one training can be delivered too, at reasonable rates.

Submit an enquiry from any page on this site and let us know you are interested in the requirements box, or simply mention it when we contact you.

All $ prices are in USD unless it’s a NZ or AU date

SPVC = Self Paced Virtual Class

LVC = Live Virtual Class

Please Note: All courses are availaible as Live Virtual Classes

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