FinOps Essentials for Cloud Deployments

Course details

FinOps sits at the intersection of finance and cloud operations, where cross-functional teamwork is essential for success. When it comes to cloud computing, FinOps managers are responsible for overseeing cloud costs and building teams across engineering, product, finance, and more. In this course, instructor David Linthicum gives an overview of the basics of cloud FinOps, collaborating with ever-changing systems, and how to motivate data-driven financial decision-making to optimize business value.

Discover the key objectives and underpinnings of FinOps so you can get ready to start crafting your own plan. Learn how to develop an effective plan for cloud deployment, while ensuring that you include everyone who needs to be involved in the process. Get tips from David on cost optimization, cost analysis and forecasting, important automation considerations, compliance, and governance. Along the way, review core cloud FinOps concepts in action by exploring practical case studies drawn from cloud computing and enterprise management.

Concepts

0. Introduction

01 - Introduction to FinOps
02 - What you should know

1. FinOps Introduction

03 - Understanding FinOps and its importance
04 - Business need for FinOps for cloud computing
05 - Defining cloud computing value and metrics
06 - Case study - Cloud budget overage
07 - Case study - Multicloud cost mayhem
08 - Introduction to FinOps objectives
09 - Introduction to FinOps technology
10 - Introduction to FinOps best practices

2. Establishing FinOps in Your Organization

11 - Determining your business requirements and business case for FinOps
12 - Single-cloud cost tracking
13 - Multicloud and hybrid cloud cost tracking
14 - Putting your cloud cost data to use
15 - Setting up cloud cost observability
16 - Setting up cloud cost governance
17 - Basic FinOps planning for the enterprise

3. Externalizing FinOps to the Organization

18 - Cloud spending visibility
19 - Cloud spending benchmarks
20 - Communicating the FinOps plan to operators and stakeholders
21 - Identifying the steps in your FinOps plan
22 - Assigning roles in your FinOps plan
23 - FinOps and compliance and agreements
24 - FinOps collaboration and culture
25 - Challenge - Approach cloud spending visibility for Henry's Hammocks
26 - Solution - Review the potential solutions you can leverage

4. Optimizing for FinOps in Your Organization

27 - Cloud spending observability
28 - Cloud spending analysis
29 - Cloud spending forecasting
30 - Cloud spending optimization processes and metrics
31 - Cloud spending optimization technology
32 - Cloud spending optimization for business value
33 - Challenge - Approach cloud spending forecasting for Henry's Hammocks
34 - Solution - Review the potential solutions you can leverage

5. Automating for FinOps

35 - Identifying what you should automate
36 - Automation best practice considerations
37 - FinOps automation technology types and usages
38 - Leveraging AI for better FinOps automation
39 - Demo - FinOps automation with AWS Cost Explorer

6. Operating for FinOps Success

40 - FinOps continuous improvement
41 - FinOps observability
42 - Supporting audits
43 - Supporting compliance
44 - Defining FinOps operational success
45 - Challenge - Approaching compliance for Henry's Hammocks
46 - Solution - Review the potential solutions you can leverage

Conclusion

47 - Next steps