💰

Cloud FinOps and Cost Management

Turn cloud spend from a finance problem into an engineering discipline — visibility, accountability, and continuous optimisation.

Intermediate0.9 hours8 lessons
Start Course →

What You'll Learn

  • ✓Articulate the FinOps Framework and the Inform / Optimize / Operate phases
  • ✓Tag, allocate, and report cloud spend by business dimension
  • ✓Right-size compute and storage with measurable confidence
  • ✓Use Reserved Instances, Savings Plans, and Committed Use Discounts effectively
  • ✓Apply Kubernetes cost-allocation patterns (Kubecost, OpenCost)
  • ✓Control data egress, storage tiering, and idle resources
  • ✓Build unit economics (cost per customer, per transaction, per feature)
  • ✓Drive the cultural change that distinguishes mature FinOps practices

Prerequisites

  • •Familiar with at least one major cloud (AWS, Azure, or GCP)
  • •Comfortable with billing concepts (instances, storage tiers, data transfer)

Course Curriculum

Module 1: Foundations

  1. 01What FinOps Is and Why It Exists6 min
  2. 02The FinOps Framework: Inform, Optimize, Operate6 min

Module 2: Optimisation Techniques

  1. 01Visibility, Tagging, and Allocation7 min
  2. 02Rightsizing and Utilisation6 min
  3. 03Commitments: RIs, Savings Plans, CUDs7 min
  4. 04Kubernetes Cost Management7 min
  5. 05Data, Storage, and Egress7 min

Module 3: Culture and Operation

  1. 01Culture, Tooling, and Unit Economics6 min

Practice for the Real Exam

After completing this course, test yourself with exam-style practice questions.

Practice FINOPS CERTIFIED PRACTITIONER QuestionsPractice AWS CLOUD PRACTITIONER QuestionsPractice AZ 900 Questions