AWS Cloud Financial Management

Updated Cloud Financial Management Digital Training Courses with a New Course Added: “FinOps for GenAI”

At AWS, we’re committed to empowering the FinOps community with the knowledge, tools, and best practices needed to excel in cloud financial management. Our dedication to the FinOps community goes beyond providing world-class cloud services – we’re invested in your professional growth and success. Through our comprehensive digital training portfolio, we aim to equip FinOps professionals with the expertise needed to drive meaningful cost optimization, establish effective governance frameworks, and demonstrate clear business value from cloud investments.

Today, we’re excited to share updates to our Cloud Financial Management training courses and introduce a specialized new course designed specifically for the growing demands of generative AI cost management.

Refreshed Cloud Financial Management Digital Training Courses

At FinOps X Europe last year, we announced the release of four new AWS Cloud Financial Management digital training courses. These courses provide foundational content for professionals looking to familiarize yourself with key CFM strategies and tools that address daily FinOps needs, while equipping learners with cost optimization techniques for commonly used AWS services. Over the past year, our team has updated these courses with new capabilities added to the AWS CFM portfolio of services. You can find the links to these four courses below.

The Newly Added Training Course “Cloud Financial Management: FinOps for GenAI”

Organizations using generative AI services need specialized cost optimization strategies to maximize your cloud investments. Today, we’re announcing a new AWS Cloud Financial Management digital training course specifically designed to help optimize costs for generative AI workloads while maintaining performance and flexibility.

As generative AI revolutionizes how organizations approach cloud financial management, more businesses are increasingly adopting generative AI as a strategic differentiator. To help organizations maximize the value of your generative AI workloads, we’ve created this new comprehensive training course focused on Cloud Financial Management for generative AI workloads.

This one-hour course, “Cloud Financial Management: FinOps for Generative AI,” expands our comprehensive training portfolio to five courses, giving you the specialized knowledge to manage generative AI costs effectively.

Controlling and Optimizing Generative AI Workloads

As organizations scale your generative AI adoption, you need specialized strategies for cost visibility, control, budgeting, and optimization. Understanding which AWS services, models, and pricing approaches work best for your specific use cases enables you to optimize performance while maintaining cost efficiency and operational flexibility. This course provides practical guidance for making these critical decisions, while maximizing the business value of your generative AI investments.

Cloud Financial Management Digital Training Portfolio

With this new course, we now have five training courses designed to equip leaders, builders, and FinOps practitioners with Cloud Financial Management related tooling and best practices. These digital training courses help develop FinOps skillsets that are in high demand and improve your organization’s FinOps capabilities that are essential to drive more value from cloud investments. You can use the courses to learn and validate your knowledge of AWS CFM tools and resources and demonstrate your expertise across cost reporting, governance, and optimization.

Who should take the trainings?

These five training courses are designed for those who are interested in and/or responsible for managing cloud spend for your organizations. There are no prerequisites for the trainings; however, courses are designed with different emphases to cater to both business and technical focuses. Learners can start learning and develop skills at your own pace.

How can I access the trainings, and do I need to pay for them?

These five one-hour trainings are offered for free and available at AWS Skill Builder. You can search for “Cloud Financial Management” in the search bar and access these free trainings in the results (see the screenshot below), or use the direct links provided for each course in this blog post.

Figure 1. Screenshot of how to search for “Cloud Financial Management” courses in AWS Skill Builder

Complete Digital Training Portfolio

You are welcome to start with any of the five courses. However, for a progressive learning experience, we recommend you to start with the first two fundamental courses. Once you have the foundational knowledge, you can either stop there or challenge yourself with the more technical cost optimization solution courses, which are intended for engineering personas.

Next Steps

  1. Visit AWS Skill Builder and search for “Cloud Financial Management“
  2. Start with our fundamentals courses or jump directly to “FinOps for Generative AI”
  3. Apply your new knowledge to achieve immediate cost optimization outcomes

We’re committed to your success in maximizing cloud value through continuous learning and practical FinOps strategies. Share your feedback as we continue expanding our training offerings to meet your evolving needs. We appreciate all the subject matter experts involved in creating and publishing these courses.

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Bowen Wang

Bowen Wang

Bowen is a Principal Product Marketing Manager for AWS Billing and Cost Management services. She focuses on enabling finance and business leaders to better understand the value of the cloud and ways to optimize their cloud financial management. In her previous career, she helped a tech start up enter the Chinese market.