Course Overview

In this training, You will learn how to implement architectural best practices, explore cost optimization strategies, and design patterns to help you architect cost-efficient solutions on AWS.

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Level: Intermediate

Duration: 3 Days

Delivery Type: Instructor-Led Training

Course Objectives

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

Who Should Go For This Training?

• Solutions architects
• Developers
• Cost-optimization leads
• System administrators
• Cloud savvy technical learners who need to understand building and operating cost-efficient architectures

Prerequisites

Recommended

• Architecting on AWS

Course Outline

Day 1:

Module 1: Introduction to Cloud Financial Management

• Introduction to Cloud Financial Management
• Four pillars of Cloud Financial Management

Module 2: Resource Tagging

• Tagging resources
• Hands-On Lab: Cost optimization: Control Resource Consumption Using Tagging and AWS Config

Module 3: Pricing and Cost Fundamentals of pricing

• AWS Free Tier
• Volume discounts
• Savings plans and Reserved Instances
• Demonstration: AWS Pricing Calculator

Day 2:

Module 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

Module 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

Module 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 3:

Module 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

Module 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

Module 9: Cost Governance

• Setting up AWS Organizations
• AWS Systems Manager

Module 10: Course Summary

• Course review
• Hands-On Lab: Cost optimization:
• Reduce Compute Costs Using AWS Instance Schedule