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    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.

    AWS Cloud for Finance Professionals (CFP) 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

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    • AWS Cloud for Finance Professionals (CFP) Prerequisites

      Who should attend
      Enterprise finance stakeholders who want to learn how to:
      Maximize cloud business value
      Use CFM best practices
      Help finance teams innovate with AWS
      Prerequisites
      We recommend that attendees of this course have taken:

      Cloud Computing and AWS from the digital version of AWS Cloud for Finance Professionals
      AWS Cloud Essentials for Business Leaders (CEBL)
      AWS Cloud Practitioner Essentials (CP-ESS)

    • AWS Cloud for Finance Professionals (CFP) Delivery Format

      In-Person

      Online

    • AWS Cloud for Finance Professionals (CFP) Outline

      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 Optimization
      Usage optimizations
      Commitment-based purchase options
      Activity 4.1: Cost optimization
      Module 5: Cloud Financial Operations
      Organizational change for CFM
      Organization models for CFM
      Activity 5.1: Organizational models
      Establish a cost-aware organizational 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