What you'll learn:
- Master real-world techniques from a Cloud FinOps expert with AWS Professional & Azure Expert certifications who’s saved $10M+ in cloud spend
- Upskill & start a career in the flourishing field of FinOps & Cloud Cost Management & Optimization
- Learn over 25 AWS Tools used for cost management & optimization
- Analyze & explain complex AWS service billing models, usage charges, invoices, meters
- Implement FinOps principles & cloud operating models that lead to cultural change & sustainable cloud savings
- Master the AWS discount models: Savings Plans, Reservations, Reserved Instance
- Create visibility into distributed cloud spending with advanced data analytics, dashboards & reporting
- Understand & operate the AWS 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 AWS cloud OpEx spending
- Identify key risks of cloud overspending so we can fix the root causes, not just the symptoms
- Apply Cost allocation strategies to create accountability for cloud spend with Showback & Chargeback
- 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
- Master Tagging, Accounts, Organizations, Resources & Hierarchies
- Principles taught in this course will contribute to your ability pass AWS Exams for certification like CLF-C02, SOA-C02, SAA-C03, DVA-C02
- …and much, much more
** 2024 Launch! ** 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 AWS Cloud Cost & Financial considerations.
Your instructor is a FinOps expert with real-world cloud optimization results who is a certified cloud architect at the Professional level in AWS Solution Architecture and Expert level in Azure 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!
Actual Recent Reviews from my similarly-themed Azure FinOps Masterclass:
"You are truly one of the better instructors on the platform. We need more content from you."
"Very organized, clear and great delivery of information"
"THE best online course I've taken. Packed with high quality lessons. Can't recommend this enough."
"as good as others say it is"
"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 AWS cloud bill
Learn enterprise-grade best practices from an expert in the field
Course Differentiators
Enterprise-grade practices & principles taught by an expert with proven results
Real-world examples & demonstrations of just about every AWS cost mgmt related service & tool (~25)
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
Format, Content, Production & Instruction are based on research-backed Instructional Learning best practices to help you learn effectively
Nearly all of the cloud cost management principles taught apply to other cloud providers such as Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform (GCP), and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI). However the tooling, resources, and many of the techniques are specific to the Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud. Save money in AWS. 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 nearly 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 corporate 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 $20M in spend.
Course Statistics
95 Videos
7+ Hours of Lectures
25 Demos
100+ Quiz Questions
50 Exam Questions
1 Purpose (Save [& ultimately make] Money)
Who Course is For
Anyone using AWS 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 Pros
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 AWS 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 AWS Exams for certification like CLF-C02, SOA-C02, SAA-C03, DVA-C02
AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate
AWS Certified SysOps Administrator Associate
AWS Certified Developer Associate
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!
