AWS Cloud Financial Management for Builders

This course provides a practical introduction to managing, optimizing, and forecasting costs for workloads running on AWS. Participants learn how to design cost-efficient cloud architectures by applying AWS pricing models, cost optimization strategies, and architectural best practices. The course explores how to estimate and predict cloud spend, implement governance controls, and use AWS-native tools to monitor, manage, and optimize costs across services. By the end of the course, learners will be equipped to make informed architectural and operational decisions that balance performance, scalability, and cost efficiency in AWS environments.

• Explain the pricing and cost structure of core AWS services
• Estimate and forecast costs for current and future cloud workloads
• Apply cost optimization strategies across compute, storage, networking, and database services
• Use AWS billing, monitoring, and reporting tools to track and manage spend
• Set up alerts and dashboards to monitor service usage and cost trends
• Implement governance best practices including tagging, account structure, access control, and provisioning policies
• Design AWS architectures that balance cost, performance, and scalability
• Apply cost governance and FinOps principles to control and optimize cloud spending

• Solutions Architects
• Software Developers working with AWS
• Cost optimization and FinOps leads
• System Administrators and Cloud Operations professionals
• Cloud-savvy technical learners responsible for building or operating AWS workloads

• Experience architecting solutions on AWS
• Experience developing or operating workloads on AWS