AWS Cloud for Finance Professionals

Gain the foundational knowledge that you need to manage, optimize and plan your cloud spend, and influence your organization’s builders to be more accountable and cost-conscious from an expert AWS instructor. In this 2-day, classroom training course you will learn to innovate within your finance organization.

Course Contents

Module 1: Introduction
Module 2: Planning and Forecasting
Module 3: Measurement and Accountability
Module 4: Cost Optimization
Module 5: Cloud Financial Operations
Module 6: Financial Transformation and Innovation
Module 7: Resources and Next Steps

You have access to the labs for another 14 days after the course. This way you can repeat exercises or deepen them individually.

You will receive the original course documentation by Amazon Web Services in English language as an e-book.

Target Group

Enterprise finance stakeholders who want to learn how to:
- Maximize cloud business value
- Use CFM best practices
- Help finance teams innovate with AWS

Knowledge Prerequisites

We recommend that attendees of this course have taken AWS Cloud Practitioner Essentials and AWS Cloud Essentials for Business Leaders.

Module 1: Introduction

Cloud spending decisions

AWS pricing

Cost drivers

AWS Well-Architected Framework

AWS Cloud Value Framework

Activity 1.1: Cloud value metrics

Cloud Financial Management

Activity 1.2: Cloud Financial Management outcomes

Module 2: Planning and Forecasting

Estimate cloud workload costs

Activity 2.1: Build and refine a cost estimate

Budget and forecast cloud costs

Improve cloud financial predictability

Module 3: Measurement and Accountability

KPIs and unit metrics

Cost visibility and monitoring

Demonstration 3.1: Tools for cost visibility, tools for cost monitoring

Cost allocation and accountability

Cost allocation building blocks

Module 4: Cost Optimization

Usage optimizations

Commitment-based purchase options

Activity 4.1: Cost optimization

Module 5: Cloud Financial Operations

Organizational change for CFM

Organization models for CFM

Activity 5.1: Organizational models

Establish a cost-aware organizational culture

Governance, control, and agility

AWS governance and control building blocks

Automated-based governance using AWS services

Module 6: Financial Transformation and Innovation

Keys to financial innovation

Financial transformation

Activity 6.1: Solutions for financial innovation

Module 7: Resources and Next Steps

Module resources

Next steps

Classroom training: Do you prefer the classic training method? A course in one of our Training Centers, with a competent trainer and the direct exchange between all course participants? Then you should book one of our classroom training dates!
Online training: You wish to attend a course in online mode? We offer you online course dates for this course topic. To attend these seminars, you need to have a PC with Internet access (minimum data rate 1Mbps), a headset when working via VoIP and optionally a camera. For further information and technical recommendations, please refer to.
Tailor-made courses: You need a special course for your team? In addition to our standard offer, we will also support you in creating your customized courses, which precisely meet your individual demands. We will be glad to consult you and create an individual offer for you.

You can find the complete description of this course with dates and prices ready for download at as PDF.