Live instructor-led training
AWS Cloud for Finance Professionals
- CMDBID 1027
- Course Code AMWSCFP
- Duration 2 Days
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Course content
What you will learn
Overview
Gain the foundational knowledge that you need to manage, optimize and plan your cloud spend, and influence your organization's builders to be more accountable and cost-conscious from an expert AWS instructor. In this 2-day, classroom training course you will learn to innovate within your finance organization.
In this course, you will learn how finance professionals can use Amazon Web Services (AWS) to adopt cloud in a fiscally responsible manner. You will gain foundational knowledge to help you manage, optimize, and plan cloud spend. You will learn how to influence your organization's builders to be more accountable and cost conscious. Finally, you will consider how you can use AWS to innovate in your finance organization.
Who should take this course
- Enterprise finance stakeholders who want to learn how to:
- Maximize cloud business value
- Use CFM best practices
- Help finance teams innovate with AWS
Audience
- Define cloud business value
- Estimate costs associated with current and future cloud workloads
- Use tools to report, monitor, allocate, optimize, and plan AWS spend
- Optimize cloud spending and usage through pricing models
- Establish best practices with Cloud Financial Management (CFM) and Cloud Financial Operations (Cloud FinOps)
- Implement financial governance and controls
- Drive finance organization innovation
Skills Gained
By completing the AWS Cloud for Finance Professionals AMWSCFP course participants will gain practical knowledge, configuration skills, implementation techniques and best practice understanding relevant to real enterprise environments.
Prerequisites
- Cloud Computing and AWS from the digital version of AWS Cloud for Finance Professionals
- We recommend that attendees of this course have taken AWS Cloud Practitioner Essentials and AWS Cloud Essentials for Business Leaders.
Outline
Activities
This course includes presentations, activities, demonstrations, videos, assessments, and group exercises
Day 1
Module 1: Introduction
- Cloud spending decisions
- AWS pricing
- Cost drivers
- AWS Well-Architected Framework
- AWS Cloud Value Framework
- Activity 1.1: Cloud value metrics
- Cloud Financial Management
- Activity 1.2: Cloud Financial Management outcomes
Module 2: Planning and Forecasting
- Estimate cloud workload costs
- Activity 2.1: Build and refine a cost estimate
- Budget and forecast cloud costs
- Improve cloud financial predictability
Module 3: Measurement and Accountability
- KPIs and unit metrics
- Cost visibility and monitoring
- Demonstration 3.1: Tools for cost visibility, tools for cost monitoring
- Cost allocation and accountability
- Cost allocation building blocks
Day 2
Module 4: Cost Optimization
- Usage optimizations
- Commitment-based purchase options
- Activity 4.1: Cost optimization
Module 5: Cloud Financial Operations
- Organizational change for CFM
- Organization models for CFM
- Activity 5.1: Organizational models
- Establish a cost-aware organizational culture
- Governance, control, and agility
- AWS governance and control building blocks
- Automated-based governance using AWS services
Module 6: Financial Transformation and Innovation
- Keys to financial innovation
- Financial transformation
- Activity 6.1: Solutions for financial innovation
Module 7: Resources and Next Steps
- Module resources
- Next steps
Certification
Labs - Please note: The labs for your AWS course will be delivered through AWS Builder labs. In order to access these labs you will need to have an Amazon BuilderID. You can set up your new Amazon account here. Please ensure that you have set up this Amazon BuilderID in advance of attending your class.
Courseware - Please note: 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.
Please also be aware that in order to access your materials and Labs it is important that your device and network should not restrict access to AWS or Vitalsource content. For that reason, AWS recommend NOT using a Corporate laptop with any security restrictions in place or the use of a VPN.
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Is AWS Cloud for Finance Professionals AMWSCFP right for me?
This course is for learners who want structured, expert-led training in cloud technology with practical workplace outcomes.
What will I learn on AWS Cloud for Finance Professionals AMWSCFP?
You will build practical cloud technology skills, understand key concepts and apply the course outcomes in real workplace scenarios.
Does AWS Cloud for Finance Professionals AMWSCFP include exam preparation?
Exam availability depends on the selected delivery option; check the course details before booking.
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