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, optimise, and plan cloud spend. You will learn how to influence your organisation’s builders to be more accountable and cost conscious. Finally, you will consider how you can use AWS to innovate in your finance organisation.
This course includes presentations, activities, demonstrations, videos, assessments, and group exercises.
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What you’ll learn
This course is designed to teach participants how to:
Define cloud business value
Estimate costs associated with current and future cloud workloads
Use tools to report, monitor, allocate, optimise, and plan AWS spend
Optimise 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 organisation innovation
AWS at Lumify Work
Lumify Work is an official AWS Training Partner for Australia, New Zealand, and the Philippines. Through our Authorised AWS Instructors, we can provide you with a learning path that’s relevant to you and your organisation, so you can get more out of the cloud. We offer virtual and face-to-face classroom-based training to help you build your cloud skills and enable you to achieve industry-recognised AWS Certification.
Stay ahead of the technology curve
Don’t let your tech outpace the skills of your people
Train Anywhere
From our state-of-the-art classrooms to telepresence to your offices, our instructor-led training caters to your needs.
Track Record
We have a 30-year history of driving innovative, award-winning learning solutions.
More Courses, More Often
When you train with Lumify Work you get more courses, more often, in more locations, and from more vendors.
Quality Instructors and Content
Expert instructors with real world experience and the latest vendor-approved in-depth course content.
Partner-Preferred Supplier
Chosen and awarded by the world's leading vendors as preferred training partner.
Ahead of the Technology Curve
No matter your chosen technologies or platforms, we can help you stay one step ahead.
Train Anywhere
From our state-of-the-art classrooms to telepresence to your offices, our instructor-led training caters to your needs.
Track Record
We have a 30-year history of driving innovative, award-winning learning solutions.
More Courses, More Often
When you train with Lumify Work you get more courses, more often, in more locations, and from more vendors.
Quality Instructors and Content
Expert instructors with real world experience and the latest vendor-approved in-depth course content.
Partner-Preferred Supplier
Chosen and awarded by the world's leading vendors as preferred training partner.
Ahead of the Technology Curve
No matter your chosen technologies or platforms, we can help you stay one step ahead.
Train Anywhere
From our state-of-the-art classrooms to telepresence to your offices, our instructor-led training caters to your needs.
Track Record
We have a 30-year history of driving innovative, award-winning learning solutions.
More Courses, More Often
When you train with Lumify Work you get more courses, more often, in more locations, and from more vendors.
Who is the course for?
This course is intended for enterprise finance stakeholders who want to learn how to maximise cloud business value, use CFM best practices, and help finance teams innovate with AWS.
We can also deliver and customise this training course for larger groups – saving your organisation time, money and resources. For more information, please contact us on 1800 U LEARN (1800 853 276)
Course subjects
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
Module 4: Cost Optimisation
Usage optimisations
Commitment-based purchase options
Activity 4.1: Cost optimisation
Module 5: Cloud Financial Operations
Organisational change for CFM
Organisation models for CFM
Activity 5.1: Organisational models
Establish a cost-aware organisational 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
Please note: This is an emerging technology course. Course outline is subject to change as needed.
Prerequisites
We recommend that attendees of this course have:
Cloud Computing and AWS from the digital version of AWS Cloud for Finance Professionals
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