Class Overview
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.
Course Objectives
In this course, you will learn to:
Explain the cost of core AWS services
Determine and estimate 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
Module 1: Introduction to Cloud Financial Management
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Cloud Financial Management
Well Architected Framework
Operational Excellence Pillar
Security Pillar
Reliability Pillar
Performance Efficiency Pillar
Cost Optimization Pillar
Sustainability Pillar
Well-Architected Tool
Module 2: Resource Tagging
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Tagging Documentation
Cost allocation tags
Tagging Strategies
Guidance for Tagging
Tag EC2 Resources
Resource tagging API guidance
Tagging taxonomy
Module 3: Pricing and Cost
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AWS Billing and Cost Management
AWS Billing User Guide
Cost Management User Guide
Avoiding unexpected charges
Instance purchasing options
EC2 Reserved Instances Marketplace
Cost & Usage Reports
Cost Documentation
Cost and Usage Reports features
Cost and Usage Reports Limits & Quotas
AWS Pricing
AWS Calculator
AWS Calculator example
Volume discounts
Amazon S3 pricing
Amazon EC2 pricing
Reserved Instances
Reserved Instances Pricing
Reserved Instances Documentation
Saving Plans
Saving Plans Pricing
Saving Plans Documentation
AWS Free Tier
AWS Always Free
AWS Free Trials
AWS 12 Months Free
Tracking Free Tier usage
Amazon EC2 Reserved Instances and Other AWS Reservation Models
Module 4: AWS Billing, Reports, and Monitoring
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AWS Billing
Billing Documentation
Billing Features
Billing Limits & Quotas
Using cost allocation tags
Cost Management Documentation
Cost Management Limits & Quotas
Cost Explorer
Cost Explorer Documentation
Cost Explorer Features
Cost Explorer Limits & Quotas
Cost Explorer Pricing
Cost and Usage Reports
Cost and Usage Reports Documentation
Cost and Usage Reports Features
AWS Budgets
AWS Budgets Documentation
AWS Budgets Pricing
AWS Budgets Limits & Quotas
Trusted Advisor
Trusted Advisor Documentation
Trusted Advisor Check Reference
Trusted Advisor Latest
Instance Scheduler
Instance Scheduler Documentation
Backup and Restore to VMware Cloud on AWS
Module 5a: Architecting for Cost: Compute Part 1
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AWS EC2
EC2 Linux Instances Documentation
EC2 Windows Instances Documentation
EC2 Features
EC2 Limits & Quotas
EC2 Pricing
EC2 Hibernate
EC2 Instance Recover
EC2 Spot Instances
EC2 Spot Instances Documentation
EC2 Spot Instances Features
EC2 Spot Instances Limits & Quotas
EC2 Spot Instances Pricing
Spot Instance Advisor
EC2 Spot Fleet
EC2 Spot Fleet Documentation
EC2 Spot Fleet Limits & Quotas
EC2 Spot Fleet Spot Allocation Strategies
EC2 Spot Fleet Spot Hibernate
Compute Optimizer
Compute Optimizer Documentation
CloudWatch
CloudWatch Documentation
CloudWatch Features
CloudWatch Limits & Quotas
CloudWatch Pricing
Installing CloudWatch Agent
Exporting log data to Amazon S3
AWS Instance Types
AWS Instance 3rd Party site
Module 5b: Architecting for Cost: Compute Part 2
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EC2 Auto Scaling
EC2 Auto Scaling Documentation
EC2 Auto Scaling Features
EC2 Auto Scaling Limits & Quotas
EC2 Auto Scaling Pricing
EC2 Auto Scaling Lifecycle hooks
EC2 Auto Scaling your Group
Maintain a fixed number of instances in your Auto Scaling group
Manual scaling for Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling
Schedule time for Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling
Dynamic Scaling for Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling
Start or stop instances based on tags
What Is AWS Auto Scaling?
Use existing AMIs and AMI mapping
EC2 Fleet Documentation
Spot Fleet Documentation
EC2 Fleet Limits & Quotas
EC2 Fleet configuration strategies
Automatic scaling for Spot Fleet
Allocation strategies for Spot Instances
Fleet Example Configurations
License Manager
License Manager Documentation
License Manager Features
License Manager Limits & Quotas
License Manager Pricing
Serverless
Serverless Getting Started
Serverless Application Model
Serverless Application Repository
Best practices for working with AWS Lambda functions
Microsoft License Mobility
AWS Systems Manager Automation
EC2 Dedicated Hosts
What is an Event-Driven Architecture?
Module 6: Architecting for Cost: Networking
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VPC
VPC Documentation
VPC Features
VPC Limits & Quotas
VPC Pricing
Data Transfer Pricing
Internet Gateway
NAT Gateway
Comparison of NAT instances and NAT gateways
VPC Peering
VPC Interface Endpoint
Elastic IP
EIP Pricing
Transit Gateway
Transit Gateway Documentation
Transit Gateway Features
Transit Gateway Limits & Quotas
Transit Gateway Pricing
Transit Gateway Best Practices
Transit Gateway Scenarios
VPN
VPN Documentation
VPN Features
VPN Limits & Quotas
VPN Pricing
Connect your VPC to remote networks using AWS Virtual Private Network
PrivateLink
PrivateLink Documentation
PrivateLink Features
PrivateLink Limits & Quotas
PrivateLink Pricing
VPC Gateway Endpoint
Access an AWS service using an interface VPC endpoint
Direct Connect
Direct Connect Documentation
Direct Connect Features
Direct Connect Limits & Quotas
Direct Connect Pricing
CloudFront
CloudFront Documentation
CloudFront Features
CloudFront Limits & Quotas
CloudFront Pricing
Customizing at the edge with Lambda@Edge
Optimizing caching and availability
Cache hit ratio
Video on demand and live streaming video with CloudFront
S3
S3 Documentation
S3 Features
S3 Limits & Quotas
S3 Pricing
S3 Transfer Acceleration
S3 Documentation
Elastic Load Balancing
Elastic Load Balancing Documentation
Application LB
Network LB
Elastic Load Balancing Features
ALB Limits & Quotas
NLB Limits & Quotas
Elastic Load Balancing Pricing
Route 53
Route 53 Documentation
Route 53 Features
Route 53 Limits & Quotas
Route 53 Pricing
Route 53 Routing Policy
Snowball
Snowball Documentation
Snowball Features
Snowball Limits & Quotas
Snowball Pricing
Module 7: Architecting for Cost: Storage
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EBS
EBS Documentation
EBS Features
EBS Limits & Quotas
EBS Pricing
EBS Volume Types
Solid state drive (SSD) volumes
Hard disk drive (HDD) volumes
S3
S3 Documentation
S3 Features
S3 Limits & Quotas
S3 Pricing
S3 Storage Classes
S3 Select
EFS
EFS Documentation
EFS Features
EFS Limits & Quotas
EFS Pricing
EFS lifecycle management
AWS Backup
AWS Backup Documentation
AWS Backup Features
AWS Backup Limits & Quotas
AWS Backup Pricing
Module 8: Architecting for Cost: Databases
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RDS
RDS Documentation
RDS Features
RDS MySQL
RDS PostgreSQL
RDS MariaDB
RDS Oracle
RDS SQL Server
RDS Limits & Quotas
RDS Pricing
Amazon RDS: Allows tag owners full access to RDS resources that they have tagged
RDS Aurora
Aurora Documentation
Aurora Features
Aurora Limits & Quotas
Aurora Pricing
DynamoDB
DynamoDB Documentation
DynamoDB Features
DynamoDB Limits & Quotas
DynamoDB Pricing
DynamoDB Pricing Calculator Example
ElastiCache
ElastiCache for Redis
ElastiCache Documentation
ElastiCache Limits & Quotas
ElastiCache Caching Strategies
ElastiCache for Memcached
Memcached Documentation
Memcached Limits & Quotas
Memcached Pricing
Redshift
Redshift Getting Started Guide
Redshift Management Documentation
Redshift Developers Guide
Redshift Features
Redshift Limits & Quotas
Redshift Pricing
Redshift Concurrency Scaling
Redshift Resizing Clusters
Redshift Spectrum
Redshift Compress table data
Module 9: Cost Governance
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Organizations
Organizations Documentation
Organizations Features
Organizations Limits & Quotas
Organizations Account Management Reference Guide
Control Tower
Control Tower Documentation
Control Tower Features
Control Tower Limits & Quotas
Control Tower Pricing
Control Tower Best Practices
Landing Zone
Account Factory
Service Catalog
Service Catalog Admin Guide
Service Catalog User Guide
Service Catalog Features
Service Catalog Limits & Quotas
Service Catalog Pricing
Service Catalog Managing Tags
Module 10: Course Summary
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Well-Architected page
Well-Architected Labs site
Amazon EC2 Spot Instances Workshops site
AWS Cost Management blog
What's New with AWS? page
AWS Podcasts page
Digital training
Classroom training
AWS certification
AWS Workshops
Tech talks
AWS Ramp-Up Guides
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