COURSE OBJECTIVE:
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
TARGET AUDIENCE:
This course is intended for:
– Solutions architects
– Developers
– Cost-optimization leads
– System administrators
– Cloud savvy technical learners who need to understand building and operating cost-efficient architectures.
COURSE PREREQUISITES:
We recommend that attendees of this course have:
• Architecting on AWS classroom training
COURSE CONTENT:
Day 1
Module 0: Couse Overview
• Course introduction
Module 1: Introduction to Cloud Financial Management
• Introduction to Cloud Financial Management
• Four pillars of Cloud Financial Management
Module 2: Resource Tagging
• Tagging resources
• Hands-On Lab: Cost optimization: Control Resource Consumption Using Tagging and AWS Config
Module 3: Pricing and Cost
• Fundamentals of pricing
• AWS Free Tier
• Volume discounts
• Savings plans and Reserved Instances
• Demonstration: AWS Pricing Calculator
Module 4: AWS Billing, Reporting, and Monitoring
• Understanding AWS invoices
• Reporting and planning
• AWS Cost Explorer
• AWS Budgets
• Demonstration: AWS Billing Console
• Demonstration: AWS Cost Explorer
• Demonstration: Trusted Advisor
• Hands-On Lab: Cost optimization: Deploy Ephemeral Environments Using Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling
Day 2
Module 5: Architecting for Cost: Compute
• Evolution of compute efficiency
• Amazon EC2 right-sizing
• Purchasing options
• Architect for Amazon EC2 Spot Instance
• Impact of software licensing
• Demonstration: Compute Optimizer
• Demonstration: Spot Instance Advisor
• Hands-On Lab: Cost optimization: Right Size Amazon EC2 Instances Using Amazon CloudWatch Metrics
Module 6: Architecting for Cost: Networking
• Data transfer costs
• Understand data costs for different services
• How to triage network costs
• ands-On Lab: Cost optimization: Reduce Data Transfer Costs Using Amazon CloudFront and Endpoints
Day 3
Module 7: Architecting for Cost: Storage
• Amazon EBS cost, pricing, and best practices
• Amazon S3 cost, pricing, and best practices
• Amazon EFS cost, pricing, and best practices
• Hands-On Lab: Cost optimization: Reduce Storage Costs Using Amazon S3 Lifecycle Management
Module 8: Architecting for Cost: Databases
• Amazon RDS cost, pricing, and best practices
• Amazon Aurora cost, pricing, and best practices
• Amazon DynamoDB cost, pricing, and best practices
• Amazon ElastiCache cost, pricing, and best practices
• Amazon Redshift cost, pricing, and best practices
Module 9: Cost Governance
• Setting up AWS Organizations
• AWS Systems Manager
• Hands-On Lab: Cost optimization: Reduce Compute Costs Using AWS Instance Scheduler
Module 10: Course Summary
• Course review
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