AWS Cloud for Finance Professionals

Course overview

In this seventeen-course curriculum, you learn about cloud business value and how to build a business case for a workload migration. You also discover Cloud Financial Management (CFM) best practices, including how to measure, optimize, and plan cloud usage, and how finance teams can innovate with Amazon Web Services (AWS). You learn how to report, monitor, and allocate your cloud costs. You gain technical and pricing-model based cost optimization strategies, find out how to forecast cloud costs, and learn about organizational and governance-based best practices that help drive cost-efficient usage of AWS. You also discover ways to innovate within your finance organization by understanding various solutions available to your firm.

• Curriculum level: Fundamental
• Duration: 17 hours

Activities

This curriculum includes presentations and assessments.

Curriculum objectives

In this curriculum, you will learn to:

• Explain the four value areas where you can realize benefits when using AWS.
• Assemble a business case that includes quantifying business value.
• Quantify migration costs and discover AWS programs available to reduce migration costs.
• Use AWS tools to report, monitor, allocate, optimize, and plan your AWS spend.
• Use technical optimizations and commitment-based purchase options to reduce and avoid AWS costs.
• Estimate costs associated with current and future cloud workloads.
• Build a CFM practice, and implement financial governance and controls.
• Drive finance organization innovation with AWS and AWS Partner solutions.