Objectives

The participant:

• You will gain a deeper understanding of the most important levers for optimising costs in the AWS Public Cloud and will be able to apply them in your daily work later on.
• After this training, you will be able to:
  • Perform your own analyses using CLEA.
  • Use best practices as input for your projects.
  • Apply cloud resources & services in a more targeted and cost-efficient way.

Content

• Cost allocation and transparency | AWS Organisations, Billing, Cost Explorer.
• How are costs allocated to and monitored by the AWS accounts?
• AWS discount models | Reserved Instances, Savings Plans, Spot and more.
• What discount options are available and what are they used for?
• Compute | EC2, ECS, Fargate, EKS, 4Wheels.
• Which compute services are used at BMW and how can they be optimised?
• Storage & DB Services | S3, EBS and RDS.
• Which storage services are used at BMW and how can they be optimised?
• Networking Services | VPC, Gateways and more.
• Which networking services are used at BMW and how can they be optimised?
• Other cost-related services | Glue, CloudWatch and KMS.
• What analytics services are used at BMW and how can they be optimised?
• Outlook | Roadmap and challenges.
• What are the next steps?

Target Group

• This course is for individuals who want to develop a deep understanding plus practical experience in the topics cost optimization in the AWS Public Cloud and usage of the CLEA Tool (Cloud Efficiency Analytics). They should have experience with CLEA and the AWS Management Console.

Good to know

• NOTE: It is recommended to use a second screen for virtual training.
• Use the CLEA Tool: https://clea.bmw.cloud
• If you have further questions regarding FinOps please contact us: FinOps@bmw.de

Prerequisites

To be eligible to enrol into this course, you must have completed the following courses: 

• XLAB - BMW Cloud Basic 1 (ITEM_36015) (currently not available).
• XLAB - BMW Cloud Basic 2 - AWS (ITEM_37008) (currently not available).
• XLAB - BMW Cloud Potential AWS (ITEM_37009)
• WBT - XLAB - Finops Fundamentals Self-Learning Course (ITEM_80063)
• Participants should already have a good understanding of and hands-on experience in the AWS Public Cloud. They should have worked with CLEA and the AWS Management Console.