AWS Cloud Financial Management for Builders - 2 Days ILT

Cloud Wizard Consulting, an AWS Advanced Training Partner and Select Tier Consulting Partner, delivers this 2-day instructor-led course designed to help solutions architects, developers, cost-optimization leads, and system administrators manage, optimize, and predict costs for AWS workloads. With more than 5,000 professionals trained and a 100% certification passing rate, our fully AWS-certified instructors bring real-world FinOps expertise to every session.

• Explain the cost of core AWS services
• Determine and predict 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

• AWS Advanced Training Partner with Select Tier Consulting credentials
• 5,000+ professionals trained across organizations of all sizes
• 100% certification passing rate among participants
• All instructors hold every AWS certification and bring hands-on FinOps project experience
• Post-training support including certification preparation guidance and follow-up Q&A

Module 1: Introduction to Cloud Financial Management Overview of Cloud Financial Management frameworks and principles.

Module 2: Resource Tagging Tagging strategies, best practices, and cost optimization through tagging.

• Lab 1: Control Resource Consumption Using Tagging Strategies

Module 3: Pricing and Cost Volume discounts, AWS Free Tier, purchase options, and AWS Pricing Calculator.

Module 4: Billing, Reporting, and Monitoring AWS Billing and Cost Management, invoices, AWS Budgets, and AWS Trusted Advisor.

• Lab 2: Reduce Costs by Deploying Ephemeral Environments Using Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling

Module 5: Architecting for Cost - Compute EC2 rightsizing, CloudWatch metrics, Spot Instances, serverless, automation, and software licensing impact.

• Lab 3: Cost Optimization - EC2 Rightsizing Using CloudWatch Metrics

Module 6: Architecting for Cost - Networking Data transfer costs, VPN connectivity, edge location services, and CloudFront optimization.

• Lab 4: Cost Optimization - Reduce Data Transfer Costs Using Amazon CloudFront and VPC Endpoints

Module 7: Architecting for Cost - Storage Amazon EBS, Amazon S3, Amazon EFS, lifecycle configurations, and Intelligent Tiering.

• Lab 5: Reduce Storage Costs Using Amazon S3 Lifecycle Management

Module 8: Architecting for Cost - Databases Amazon RDS, DynamoDB, ElastiCache, Amazon Redshift, and reservation models.

Module 9: Governance AWS Organizations, landing zones, guardrails, and cost governance frameworks.

• Lab 6: Reduce Compute Costs Using AWS Instance Scheduler

This course includes six guided labs where participants work in isolated AWS environments to apply cost optimization techniques in real time. Labs cover tagging strategies, ephemeral environments, EC2 rightsizing, data transfer reduction, storage lifecycle management, and compute scheduling.

• Solutions architects
• Developers
• Cost-optimization leads
• System administrators

• Architecting on AWS training (or equivalent experience)

• Level: Intermediate
• Duration: 2 days
• Format: Instructor-led training

Contact Cloud Wizard Consulting to discuss available dates, group enrollment options, and how this training fits your team's cloud financial management goals.