I. Overview:

This course is for individuals who seek an understanding of how to manage, optimize, and predict costs as they run workloads on Amazon Web Services (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.

II. Duration: 24 hours (3 days)

III. Objectives:

• 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

IV. Intended Audience:

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

V. Prerequisites:

Architecting on AWS training.

VI. Course outlines:

1. Module 1: Introduction to Cloud Financial Management

• Overview
• Introduction to Cloud Financial Management
• Cloud Financial Management Overview
• Knowledge Check

2. Module 2: Resource Tagging

• Overview
• Tagging and Cost Optimization
• Tagging Best Practices
• Knowledge Check
• Lab 1: Control Resource Consumption Using Tagging Strategies

3. Module 3: Pricing and Cost

• Overview
• Pricing and Cost Introduction
• Volume Discounts
• AWS Free Tier
• Purchase Options
• AWS Pricing Calculator
• Tech Talk: Pricing Options
• Knowledge Check

4. Module 4: Billing, Reporting, and Monitoring

• Overview
• AWS Billing and Cost Management
• Understanding AWS Invoices
• Reporting and Planning
• AWS Budgets
• AWS Trusted Advisor
• Tech Talk: Billing Dashboard and Connected Services
• Knowledge Check
• Lab 2: Reduce Costs by Deploying Ephemeral Environments Using Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling

5. Module 5: Architecting for Cost - Compute

• Overview
• Evolution of Compute Efficiency
• Amazon EC2 Rightsizing
• Amazon CloudWatch
• Architecting for Spot
• Manage Capacity
• Automation
• Impact of Software Licensing
• Serverless
• Tech Talk: Scaling Non-EC2 Services
• Knowledge Check
• Lab 3: Cost Optimization: EC2 Rightsizing Using CloudWatch Metrics

6. Module 6: Architecting for Cost: Networking

• Overview
• Data Transfer Between Services
• AWS Virtual Private Network Connectivity
• Edge Location Services
• Data Costs for Different Services
• Networking for Compute-Optimized Instances
• Knowledge Check
• Lab 4: Cost Optimization: Reduce Data Transfer Costs Using Amazon CloudFront and VPC Endpoints

7. Module 7: Architecting for Cost - Storage

• Overview
• AWS Storage Portfolio
• Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS)
• Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3)
• Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS)
• Tech Talk: S3 Lifecycle Configurations vs Intelligent Tiering
• Knowledge Check
• Lab 5: Reduce Storage Costs Using Amazon S3 Lifecycle Management

8. Module 8: Architecting for Cost - Databases

• Overview
• Introduction
• Amazon RDS
• Amazon DynamoDB
• Amazon ElastiCache
• Amazon Redshift
• Reservation models
• Use Case
• Knowledge Check

9. Module 9: Governance

• Overview
• Cost Governance Overview
• AWS Organizations Overview
• Building a Landing Zone
• Tech Talk: Landing Zone Guardrails
• Knowledge Check
• Lab 6: Reduce Compute Costs Using AWS Instance Scheduler