Training

Get your team up to speed with CloudHiro's famous FinOps training

We periodically run a FinOps course online or onsite, directly or through partners. It's a two days 16 hours course. The next dates are:

 

Overview

This course is intended to provide a working knowledge of cloud FinOps to all people in the organization, that are involved with cloud purchase and usage.

 

On Completion, Delegates will be able to

Understand the various cloud pricing schemes and cost generators. Understand the role of FinOps in the organization. Understand cloud bills. Implement cloud cost management strategies in their organization.

 

Who should attend?

Product managers, Project managers, DevOps, Purchase, and finance at all levels.

 

Prerequisites

Working knowledge of one of the main clouds (AWS, Azure, GCP). This means you have completed the 4 hours of AWS business accreditation or equivalent.

 

Syllabus

Day One

Introductions – 30 min.
What is FinOps, and why do we need it? – 30 min.
The financial side: (7 H)

• Pricing models and vectors – 1 H
1. Per Action/Resource/GB/Service
2. CPU/MEM/Storage/Network
3. IOPS/Tiers/Allocated/Running
4. Multiple vectors per service sometimes 7+
• Financial tools (Reservations, Saving plans, Sustained use discounts) – 2 H
1. The idea of commit to get a discount
2. RIs – Term/Payment type/Resource type/ (GCP Commited usage)
3. RI type (convertible/Regional/AZ) includes or not capacity reservations
4. Saving plans
5. Sustained usage discounts
6. RI strategies and architectural strategies derived from RIs
7. Automated RI tools
8. Selling RIs on the marketplace
• Spot instances – 30 min
1. What are spots
2. How do spots work
3. Spot price differences and fluctuation
4. What can I run on spots?
• Tiered pricing & size discounts – 30 min
1. What is tiered pricing?
2. Example of tiered price services
• Organization & accounts, subscriptions, & projects – 30 min
1. AWS Organization structure & billing allocation
2. Azure Tenant structure & billing allocation
3. GCP Organization structure (here) & billing allocation
• Enterprise Agreements, free tiers, & credits – 30 min
1. EDP, MAP, Free tiers, Credits, Discounts etc...
• Working via CSP/MSP & paying for support – 30 min.
1. What are CSPs MSPs?
2. What can I get from CSP/MSP?
• Buying software on the marketplace – 30 min
1. What is the marketplace
2. Why buy software on the marketplace?
• Billing visualization and verification – 30 min
1. Visualization tools
2. Verification tools
• Q & A – 30 min

 

Day Two

The technical side: (7H)

• The basics
1. Tagging and attribution – 30 min
2. Right-sizing – 30 min
3. Unused resources – 30 min
4. Monitoring & alerting – 1 H
• Automation and auto-scaling – 1 H
1. What can be auto-scaled?
• Basically everything, Compute, Storage, Lambda (Worm)
2. How does auto-scale work?
3. Cloud native auto-scallers
4. Can we do better than the cloud native?
• Security and cost relations – 30 min
1. Cloud shared responsibility model
2. Why is security expensive?
• NAT example
• Encryption and performance
3. Why is security cheaper than the alternative
4. What can I do to help?
• Use free tools
• Buy in the marketplace
• Architect correctly & use new features
• Adopting new technologies – 30 min
1. K8S as an example
• Enforcing controls and budgets – 1 H
1. Tagging and budget allocation
2. Alerts and false alarms
3. Checkpoints
• Managed vs. self-managed services - 30 min
1. The cost of auto-manager resources
2. A few examples
3. The savings
4. Why clouds drive you to managed
5. The size rule
• or when are you big enough to manage it yourself

The hard side: (1 H)

• Pricing & Projecting
1. Business params
• Correlation between cost and business params
2. Anomaly detection
• Also on billing
3. Projection
• Product
• Architecting and re-architecting
1. The effect of the architecture on cost
• Work load placement
• Multi cloud architectures
• A few tips and tricks
ROI of re-architecting

Final Q & A – 30 min