Course Overview
This course is for individuals who seek an understanding of how to manage, optimize, and predict costs as you run workloads on AWS. You learn how to implement architectural best practices, explore cost optimization strategies, and design patterns to help you architect cost-efficient solutions on AWS.
What you’ll learn
- 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
Requirements
- Architecting on AWS classroom training
Target audiences
- Solutions architects, Developers, Cost-optimization leads and System administrators
Curriculum
- 3 Sections
- 10 Lessons
- 3 Days
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- Day 14
- 1.1Module 1: Introduction to Cloud Financial Management Introduction to Cloud Financial Management Four pillars of Cloud Financial Management
- 1.2Module 2: Resource Tagging Tagging resources Hands-On Lab: Cost optimization: Control Resource Consumption Using Tagging and AWS Config
- 1.3Module 3: Pricing and Cost Fundamentals of pricing AWS Free Tier Volume discounts Savings plans and Reserved Instances Demonstration: AWS Pricing Calculator
- 1.4Module 4: AWS Billing, Reporting, and Monitoring Understanding AWS invoices Reporting and planning AWS Cost Explorer AWS Budgets Demonstration: AWS Billing Console Demonstration: AWS Cost Explorer Demonstration: Trusted Advisor Hands-On Lab: Cost optimization: Deploy Ephemeral Environments Using Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling
- Day 22
- 2.1Module 5: Architecting for Cost: Compute Evolution of compute efficiency Amazon EC2 right-sizing Purchasing options Architect for Amazon EC2 Spot Instance Impact of software licensing Demonstration: Compute Optimizer Demonstration: Spot Instance Advisor Hands-On Lab: Cost optimization: Right Size Amazon EC2 Instances Using Amazon CloudWatch Metrics
- 2.2Module 6: Architecting for Cost: Networking Data transfer costs Understand data costs for different services How to triage network costs Hands-On Lab: Cost optimization: Reduce Data Transfer Costs Using Amazon CloudFront and Endpoints
- Day 34
- 3.1Module 7: Architecting for Cost: Storage Amazon EBS cost, pricing, and best practices Amazon S3 cost, pricing, and best practices Amazon EFS cost, pricing, and best practices Hands-On Lab: Cost optimization: Reduce Storage Costs Using Amazon S3 Lifecycle Management
- 3.2Module 8: Architecting for Cost: Databases Amazon RDS cost, pricing, and best practices Amazon Aurora cost, pricing, and best practices Amazon DynamoDB cost, pricing, and best practices Amazon ElastiCache cost, pricing, and best practices Amazon Redshift cost, pricing, and best practices
- 3.3Module 9: Cost Governance Setting up AWS Organizations AWS Systems Manager Hands-On Lab: Cost optimization: Reduce Compute Costs Using AWS Instance Scheduler
- 3.4Module 10: Course Summary Course review
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