Certificate of Achievement
has completed the following course:
AWS: Essential Optimisation for Cloud Cost Management
AWS Training and Certification
For effective cost control in cloud computing services, it is quite important to analyze and manage cloud cost and leverage cloud cost management tools to help discover the cause(s) of these inefficiencies. Unplanned cloud costs are frequently the result of lack of visibility about the current consumption patterns and past trends, nonstandard deployments that come from unclear or absent development processes, poor organization, or the absence of automated deployment and configuration tools.
3 weeks, 4 hours per week
Maureen Lonergan
VP, Training and Certification
AWS Training and Certification
Transcript
Learning outcomes
- Differentiate between traditional IT financial management vs. cloud financial management.
- Define the four pillars of cloud financial management.
- Examine and adjust AWS costs based on best practices.
- Understand how to estimate cost based on best practices.
- Use AWS Billing and the AWS Costs and Usage Report to generate your AWS costs.
- Learn how to visualize costs and usage with AWS cost explorer.
- Observe multi-account structure with AWS organizations.
- Learn the benefits of cost allocation and tagging.
- Differentiate between Amazon EC2 pricing models and right sizing.
- Describe various types of AWS storage and databases designed for different application requirements.
- Identify AWS connectivity services and data transfer options to find the most cost-effective solution for transferring data in your architecture.
- Define cost governance and data transfer.
Syllabus
- Estimate costs before you create the services.
- Monitor costs with budgets, alerts and cost analysis.
- Set up budgets and alerts for actual and forecasted thresholds.
- Review the charges on your invoice.
- Extract billing and cost data using the consumption API.
- Proactively configuring your account to avoid surprises.
- Tips for reducing costs.
- Use advanced methods for cost control and optimization.
- Plan for effective cloud cost management by setting up your teams, tools, and applying financial governance best practices.
Issued on 14th January 2024
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