What you'll learn:
- Learn 100’s of strategic & tactical cost optimizations across Microsoft Azure services such as Azure Virtual Machines, Azure Storage, Databases & more
- Master real-world techniques from a Cloud FinOps expert with Azure Expert & AWS Professional certifications who’s saved $10M+ in cloud spend
- Become a cost-saving hero at your company by capitalizing on $100B+ worldwide cloud waste savings opportunity
- Build a roadmap to save your company 30% or more on your Azure cloud bill
- Upskill & start a career in the flourishing field of FinOps & Cloud Cost Management & Optimization
- Analyze & explain complex Azure service billing models, usage charges, invoices, meters
- Implement FinOps principles & cloud operating models that lead to cultural change & sustainable cloud savings
- Master the Azure commitment & discount models, Reservations, Savings Plans, Hybrid Benefits, Dev/Test Pricing, etc.
- Create visibility into distributed cloud spending with advanced data analytics, dashboards & reporting
- Understand & operate the Azure tooling for Estimating, Visualizing, Analyzing, Exporting, Budgeting, Monitoring, Alerting and more
- Explain the key differences between on premise & cloud operating models that lead to waste
- Understand, Forecast, Estimate & Budget your Microsoft Azure cloud OpEx spending
- Identify key risks of cloud overspending so we can fix the root causes, not just the symptoms
- Weave Cloud Architecture and Cloud Management best practices into Cloud Economic strategies
- Apply Cost allocation strategies to create accountability for cloud spend with Showback & Chargeback
- Leverage the variable, on demand, pay for use cost model of the cloud to prevent waste
- Understand important concepts such as chargeback, showback, cost allocation, meters, spot, autoscaling, serverless, PaaS, Elasticity, Resizing....
- ...Overprovisioning, Orphan, Right-Sizing, Tiering, Anomaly Detection, Autoscaling, Spot, Instance Scheduling, Storage Lifecycles & more!
- Understand why 94% of companies routinely waste money in the cloud & how to stop it
- Modernize old procurement, purchasing and financial management processes built for legacy CapEx models
- Understand Platform as a Service (PaaS), Infrastructure as a Service models (IaaS) relationship to cloud costs
- Architect, Govern & Operate your cloud environment with cost-effective cloud-native PaaS services
- Master Tagging, Subscriptions, Management Groups & Resource Groups hierarchies & organization
- Cut cloud spending without affecting resiliency, availability, performance of apps
- Principles taught in this course will contribute to your ability pass Microsoft Exams for certification like AZ-900, AZ-104, AZ-305, DP-900
- …and much, much more
This is a comprehensive & detailed video series that goes broader & deeper than other courses on this topic. Pound for pound, the most thorough coverage of Azure Cost Optimization considerations.
Your instructor is a FinOps expert with real-world cloud optimization results who is a certified cloud architect at the expert level in Azure Solution Architecture and professional level in AWS Solution Architecture.
Learn why:
Companies waste $90 Billion+ yearly in public cloud spend
94% of Enterprises are Significantly overspending on public cloud
#1 Cloud Challenge for 82% of organizations: Managing Cloud Spend
…and how to fix it!
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"Great presentation style and concise course materials. Highly recommended."
Course Benefits
Level up your career & get a higher paying job with FinOps
Become the cost-saving hero at your organization
Save your company 30-40% on your Azure cloud bill
Learn enterprise-grade best practices from an expert in the field
Gain 100+ optimization ideas for your cloud toolbelt
Course Differentiators
Enterprise-grade practices & principles taught by an expert with proven results
Helps you understand & Fix the root of the problem that leads to waste
Sustainable strategies to prevent waste from the start
Quantity of Cost-Saving Optimizations
Production & Editing Quality
Breadth of Quality topic coverage
Nearly all of the cloud cost management principles taught apply to other cloud providers such as Amazon Web Services AWS, Google Cloud Platform GCP, and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure OCI. However the tooling, resources, and many of the techniques are specific to the Microsoft Azure cloud.Save money in Azure. Save money in the cloud!
Instructor
I’m currently a Principal Cloud Architect. I’ve been working in IT for over 25 years and working in cloud computing for almost the past 10 years. I’ve held technical and leadership roles focused on development, operations, engineering, and architecture. And I hold professional & expert level certifications in AWS and Azure clouds.
I’ve led FinOps practices, created world-class cloud cost reporting dashboards in Power BI, trained teams on cloud financial management best practices, and led company-wide cloud savings and optimization initiatives for AWS and Azure clouds, saving over 10M dollars in spend.
Course Statistics
78 Videos
7+ Hours of Lectures
100+ Quiz Questions
75 Exam Questions
100+ Optimizations
1 Purpose (Save [& ultimately make] Money)
Who Course is For
Anyone using Azure who works in IT, engineering, finance, procurement, product ownership, executives or leadership will benefit from this expert guidance.
Technology – CIO, Cloud Managers, Architects, Engineers, Developers, Data
Finance – CFO, Finance Managers, Cloud Financial Analysts
Anyone requesting or deploying resources in the cloud
Anyone wanting to save money in the cloud or master Azure Cost Management
This course also comes with:
Lifetime access to all future updates
A responsive instructor in the Q&A Section
Udemy Certificate of Completion for Download
30-day "No Questions Asked" Money Back Guarantee
Principles taught in this course will contribute to your ability pass Microsoft Exams for certification like AZ-900, AZ-104, AZ-305, DP-900
Prerequisites
The Prerequisites for this course are a working understanding of IT concepts and fundamental understanding of Azure & Cloud computing concepts.
What are you waiting for! Enroll now & let’s get started!
