FinOps Essentials

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Course Description

“FinOps Essentials” explains the benefits of a FinOps concept in an AWS environment and provides participants with practical examples in the field of cost optimization and monitoring. In this course, we teach the advantages of AWS billing models and optimizing the utilization of running systems. Through exercises, practical experience is quickly gained, and participants learn how to implement effective cost management in AWS.

Course Objectives

In this course, you will learn:

• What FinOps mean

• Pros of a FinOps concept for cost-management in AWS

• Vorteile eines FinOps Konzeptes für das Kostenmanagement in AWS

• Identify cost driver

• Reducing cost through optimizing your billing models and system right-sizing

• Options for cost reporting in AWS

• Cost control through AWS Budgets

Course Duration / Price

• 1 Day / € 750.00 (excl. tax) per person (DE)

Prerequisites

We recommend that attendees of this course should have:

• Basic understanding of general billing models in AWS.

Target Audience Description

• Product Owner CCoE

• Financial Cloud Operator

• Cloud Engineers

Course Outline

• Introductions and Overview

• Introduction FinOps

• Billing / Controlling (INFORM)

  • Know your AWS invoice

  • Identify cost driver

• Cost Optimization (OPTIMIZE)

  • Methods to optimize; impact vs. complexity

  • Different billing models

  • Where to start?

• FinOps in Operation (OPERATE)

  • Importance of automation

  • Link to Business

IMPORTANT: Please bring your notebook (Windows, Linux or Mac) to our training. If this is not possible, please contact us beforehand.

The course materials are in English, on request also in German (if available).
The course language is German, on request also in English.