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.

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Learning Objectives

In this course, you will learn to:

Explain the cost of core AWS services
Determine and predict 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 optimize your AWS spend
Apply strategies to monitor service costs and usage
Implement governance standards, including resource tagging, account structure, provisioning, permissions, and access

1

  • Module 0- Couse Overview

  • Course introduction
2

  • Module 1- Introduction to Cloud Financial Management

  • Introduction to Cloud Financial Management
    Four pillars of Cloud Financial Management
3

  • Module 2- Resource Tagging

  • Tagging resources
    Hands-On Lab- Cost optimization- Control Resource Consumption Using Tagging and AWS Config
4

  • Module 3- Pricing and Cost

  • Fundamentals of pricing
    AWS Free Tier
    Volume discounts
    Savings plans and Reserved Instances
    Demonstration- AWS Pricing Calculator
5

  • Module 4- AWS Billing, Reporting, and Monitoring

  • Understanding AWS invoices
    Reporting and planning
    AWS Cost Explorer
    AWS Budgets
    Demonstration- AWS Billing Console
    Demonstration- AWS Cost Explorer
    Demonstration- Trusted Advisor
    Hands-On Lab- Cost optimization- Deploy Ephemeral Environments Using Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling
6

  • Module 5- Architecting for Cost- Compute

  • Evolution of compute efficiency
    Amazon EC2 right-sizing
    Purchasing options
    Architect for Amazon EC2 Spot Instance
    Impact of software licensing
    Demonstration- Compute Optimizer
    Demonstration- Spot Instance Advisor
    Hands-On Lab- Cost optimization- Right Size Amazon EC2 Instances Using Amazon CloudWatch Metrics
7

  • Module 6- Architecting for Cost- Networking

  • Data transfer costs
    Understand data costs for different services
    How to triage network costs
    Hands-On Lab- Cost optimization- Reduce Data Transfer Costs Using Amazon CloudFront and Endpoints
8

  • Module 7- Architecting for Cost- Storage

  • Amazon EBS cost, pricing, and best practices
    Amazon S3 cost, pricing, and best practices
    Amazon EFS cost, pricing, and best practices
    Hands-On Lab- Cost optimization- Reduce Storage Costs Using Amazon S3 Lifecycle Management
9

  • Module 8- Architecting for Cost- Databases

  • Amazon RDS cost, pricing, and best practices
    Amazon Aurora cost, pricing, and best practices
    Amazon DynamoDB cost, pricing, and best practices
    Amazon ElastiCache cost, pricing, and best practices
    Amazon Redshift cost, pricing, and best practices
10

  • Module 9- Cost Governance

  • Setting up AWS Organizations
    AWS Systems Manager
    Hands-On Lab- Cost optimization- Reduce Compute Costs Using AWS Instance Scheduler
11

  • Module 10- Course Summary

  • Course review

Audience

This course is intended for Solutions architects, Developers, Cost-optimization leads, System administrators.

Language

English

Prerequisites

We recommend that attendees of this course have: Architecting on AWS classroom training

$2,025

Length: 3.0 days (24 hours)

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