AWS Cloud for Finance Professionals

Overview

Delivery method

Virtual classroom

Duration

2 days

Audience

Financial Officers

Functional specialists

Procurement Specialists

Description

In this course, you will learn how finance professionals can use Amazon Web Services (AWS) to adopt cloud in a fiscally responsible manner. You will gain foundational knowledge to help you manage, optimize, and plan cloud spend. You will learn how to influence your organization’s builders to be more accountable and cost conscious. Finally, you will consider how you can use AWS to innovate in your finance organization.

Learning Objectives

• Define cloud business value.
• Estimate costs associated with current and future cloud workloads.
• Use tools to report, monitor, allocate, optimize, and plan AWS spend.
• Optimize cloud spending and usage through pricing models.
• Establish best practices with Cloud Financial Management (CFM) and Cloud Financial Operations (Cloud FinOps).
• Implement financial governance and controls.
• Drive finance organization innovation.

Target Audience

This course is intended for enterprise finance stakeholders who want to learn how to maximize cloud business value, use CFM best practices, and help finance teams innovate with AWS.

Prerequisite(s)

For additional learning context, participants may explore "The AWS Cloud Practitioner Essentials” through this link AWS Cloud Practitioner Essentials - AWS Skill Builder (AWS Skill Builder free access). However it is not a requirement for taking this course.

Notes

Course level: Fundamental

The Digital Enterprise Skilling (DES) program provides Shared Services Canada (SSC) employees with the knowledge and skills required to accelerate digital adoption, improve IT services delivery, and adapt to the workforce’s needs of the future.

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