In this seventeen-course curriculum, you learn about cloud business value and how to build a business case for a workload migration. You also discover Cloud Financial Management (CFM) best practices, including how to measure, optimize, and plan cloud usage, and how finance teams can innovate with Amazon Web Services (AWS). You learn how to report, monitor, and allocate your cloud costs. You gain technical and pricing-model based cost optimization strategies, find out how to forecast cloud costs, and learn about organizational and governance-based best practices that help drive cost-efficient usage of AWS. You also discover ways to innovate within your finance organization by understanding various solutions available to your firm.

• Curriculum level: Fundamental
• Duration: 17 hours

Activities

This curriculum includes presentations and assessments.

Curriculum objectives

In this curriculum, you will learn to:

• Explain the four value areas where you can realize benefits when using AWS.
• Assemble a business case that includes quantifying business value.
• Quantify migration costs and discover AWS programs available to reduce migration costs.
• Use AWS tools to report, monitor, allocate, optimize, and plan your AWS spend.
• Use technical optimizations and commitment-based purchase options to reduce and avoid AWS costs.
• Estimate costs associated with current and future cloud workloads.
• Build a CFM practice, and implement financial governance and controls.
• Drive finance organization innovation with AWS and AWS Partner solutions.

Intended audience

This curriculum is intended for:

• Chief financial officers
• Chief accounting officers
• Financial controllers
• Financial planning and analysis managers
• Procurement managers
• Financial analysts
• Accounts payable
• CFM/FinOps leaders
• Cloud infrastructure engineers
• Cloud application engineers
• Anyone curious about cloud business value and CFM

We recommend that attendees of this curriculum have taken:

AWS Cloud Practitioner Essentials

AWS Cloud Essentials for Business Leaders

Role Based Recommendations

Although we recommend taking all of the courses in this curriculum, this table maps individual courses to specific finance team personas. Please review to see what the recommended courses are for your specific finance role, as you plan your learning journey for the AWS Cloud for Finance Professionals curriculum.

Your Role	Chief Financial Officer	Financial Controller	Chief Accounting Officer	Financial Planning & Analysis	Procurement	Financial Analyst	Accounts Payable	Cloud Financial Management Leader
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