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Optimizing Cloud Costs

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Training content

Duration: 45 minutes and 55 seconds

Internal Business Effects of the Cloud

This lesson looks at the different areas of your organization and helps give you visibility on how a cloud migration will affect it from a business perspective.

Duration: 1 hour and 15 minutes

Cost Optimization Strategies for the Cloud

In this lesson, you'll learn what you can do to reduce overall spending while maintaining innovation velocity.

Duration: 1 hour and 6 minutes

Cloud Financial Management — Beyond Just Optimization

In this lesson, you are going to learn about FinOps Principles and how to build FinOps Teams, as well as the three phases of the FinOps Lifecycle.

Duration: 33 minutes and 31 seconds

Designing Cost-Optimized Architectures in AWS

This lesson covers cost optimization concepts and practices, the various instance types available, and purchasing options.

Duration: Up to 46 minutes

Webinar | AWS Cost Savings: Ending Decision Paralysis When Trying to Optimize Spend with Reserved Instances and Savings Plans

Discover how to ace the planning and procurement of reserved cloud capacity, so you can successfully optimize your AWS spend.

Duration: 37 minutes and 57 seconds

Optimizing Cloud Costs with Spot Instances and Spotinst

This lesson explains how to leverage excess cloud capacity to optimize the costs of cloud computing using spot instances.

Duration: Up to 2 hours

Using EC2 Spot Instances

In this lab, you will learn how to create EC2 spot instances, how they can be used in AWS, and how to handle instance interruptions.

Welcome to Optimizing Cloud Costs, a course focused on cloud cost optimization and Cloud financial management.

The courses and labs within this course help you understand Cloud cost management practices and principles.

Adopt a consumption model
Measure overall efficiency
Analyze and attribute expenditure
Use managed and application-level services to reduce cost of ownership

Objective

After completing this course, you will be better prepared to manage cost-effective cloud solutions.

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Andrew is fanatical about helping business teams gain the maximum ROI possible from adopting, using, and optimizing Public Cloud Services. Having built 70+ Cloud Academy courses, Andrew has helped over 50,000 students master cloud computing by sharing the skills and experiences he gained during 20+ years leading digital teams in code and consulting. Before joining Cloud Academy, Andrew worked for AWS and for AWS technology partners Ooyala and Adobe.

Covered Topics

Microsoft Azure

Amazon Web Services

Compute for AWS

Storage for AWS

Management for Azure

Management for AWS

Amazon EC2 Spot Instance

AWS Trusted Advisor

Cost Management

Business Productivity

Cost Optimization