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)
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AWS Cloud for Finance Professionals (CFP) Delivery Format
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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