AWS Cloud for Finance Professionals

Class Overview
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, optimize, and
plan cloud spend. You will learn how to influence your organization’s builders to be more accountable and
cost conscious. Finally, you will consider how you can use AWS to innovate in your finance organization.

Course Objectives
In this course, you will learn to:
• Define cloud business value
• Estimate costs associated with current and future cloud workloads
• Use tools to report, monitor, allocate, optimize, and plan AWS spend
• Optimize 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 organization innovation

Module 1: Introduction
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AWS fundamentals
                 Cloud Financial Management
                 AWS Cloud Financial Management Guide
                 Cloud Economics Center
                 Well Architected Framework
Pricing and licensing               
                 AWS Pricing
                 How AWS Pricing Works: AWS Pricing Overview
                 AWS Free Tier
                 AWS Always Free
                 AWS Free Trials
                 AWS 12 Months Free
                 AWS License Manager
                 AWS Optimization and Licensing Assessment
Cloud financial and cost management
                 Cloud Financial Management with AWS
                 Fostering Business and Organizational Transformation to Generate Business Value with AWS
                 AWS Cloud Adoption Framework (AWS CAF)
                 AWS Cloud Value Benchmarking
                 AWS Cloud Financial Management for Builders Course
                 AWS Cloud Financial Management (blog)
                 Finance and Investment

Module 2: Planning and Forecasting
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Migration
                 AWS Migration Acceleration Program
                 Migration Evaluator
                 AWS Migration Competency Partners
Pricing and forecasting tools
                 AWS Pricing Calculator
                 Using the AWS Price List API
                 Forecasting with Cost Explorer
                 AWS Cost Anomaly Detection
              
Module 3: Measurement and Accountability
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Multi-account strategies and tagging
                 Why should I set up a multi-account AWS environment?
                 AWS Control Tower – Set up & Govern a Multi-Account AWS Environment
                 AWS launches Tag Policies
                 AWS Cost Categories
Budgeting tools
                 AWS Cost & Usage Report
                 AWS Budgets
                 Managing your costs with AWS Budgets
Optimization
                 Micro-Optimization
                 Getting Started

Module 4: Cost Optimization
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Monitoring tools
                 AWS Trusted Advisor
                 Optimizing your cost with Rightsizing Recommendations
                 AWS Auto Scaling
                 AWS Instance Scheduler
Pricing plans
                 Savings Plans
                 Getting started with Savings Plans
                 Amazon EC2 Reserved Instances
                 Understanding your reservations with Cost Explorer
                 Amazon EC2 Spot Instances

Module 5: Cloud Financial Operations
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                 AWS Ramp-Up Guide, Cost Management
                 CBO Example: The Vanguard Group
                 Finance and technology partnership
                 AWS Partner, Anaplan
                 AWS Partner, Cloud Custodian

Module 6: Financial Transformation and Innovation
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Financial transformation examples
                 AWS Finance builds an automated contract-processing platform
                 SAP Data Lake Discovery on AWS
                 Prophecy
                 Bizzy Group Unlocks Business Opportunities with Data on AWS

Module 7: AWS Resources and Next Steps
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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