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Cloud Academy – FinOps – Forecasting Cloud Costs

Cloud Academy – FinOps – Forecasting Cloud Costs
MP4 | Video: h264, 1920×1080 | Audio: AAC, 44.1 KHz, 2 ChDifficulty: Intermediate | Genre: eLearning | Language: English + vtt | Duration: 8 Lectures (1h 14m) | Size: 2.96 GB

As businesses grow their spend in the public cloud to accelerate innovation and to build a

competitive advantage, predicting cloud growth accurately short- to long-term becomes increasingly important for leadership.

How this course will help you

Finance and executives need to know available funds several years into the future to build their innovation roadmap.

Cloud Academy – FinOps – Forecasting Cloud Costs details the features of AWS and Azure

that make forecasting cloud costs simple, including resource consumption forecasting and the integrated management tools from AWS and Azure.

This course focuses on how to enable finance and leadership to accurately predict cloud spend for multiple years into the future.

Cloud is an important business strategy for most enterprises today.

How this course will help you

Whether you’re just getting started or are looking to make your cloud migration more effective, Cloud Academy –

FinOps – Forecasting Cloud Costs is a deep dive into the financial aspects of your business.

Forecasting public cloud costs accurately is essential for business growth and continued innovation.

As IT departments move to the cloud, they face challenges they have never experienced before,

including new accounting processes, pricing structures and utilization forecasting techniques.

Cloud Academy’s FinOps course will help you understand the challenges of forecasting costs in a dynamic environment

that’s constantly changing.

How this course will help you

In this course, you’ll learn how to use Amazon Web Services (AWS)

automated forecasting modeling tools like CloudWatch and Simple Monthly Calculator to streamline forecasting expenses in the cloud.

After taking this course, you will be able to forecast your AWS spend accurately short- to long-term by leveraging data from historical usage trends and adjusting it with forecasts.

How this course will help you

This allows business leadership to make better decisions about growing their business or balancing the operating budget

Finance and strategy teams must learn to predict cloud spend accurately since they drive the innovation roadmap of a company.

In this course, you’ll learn how to build a forecast model that uses actual spend data, growth assumptions and other factors to predict future spends.

Planning long-term cloud spend is a complex and challenging process. In this course,

you’ll learn the different ways that companies manage their cloud budgets, from traditional

spreadsheets and manual processes to automated solutions like AWS Cost Allocator and Azure Spatial Anchors.

After taking this course, you will be able to use your previous financial experience to predict future cloud costs, as well as help lead planning for future innovation budgets.