AWS Cost Management: Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)
Costs in cloud environments can get complicated quickly. Therefore it is essential to provide transparency and responsibility to everyone in a business. In this lesson, you will learn about KPIs, how to use them correctly, and how to make the most of them in your individual use case.
Learning Objectives
- Understand what KPIs are and how they are used
- Learn about the most commonly used KPIs in a FinOps context
Intended Audience
This lesson is intended for anyone who wants to learn how to manage their AWS cloud costs effectively.
Prerequisites
To get the most out of this lesson, you should have a basic understanding of AWS, as well as finance and cloud terminology.
Heinrich Marks and is a FinOps Consultant at kreuzwerker Frankfurt GmbH, Germany. His expertise lies in AWS cost optimization and FinOps methodology at the enterprise level.
At kreuzwerker, we focus on AWS, Software Engineering, and Cloud Financial Management. We've faced many cases with our customers where costs in the cloud got out of hand and lost touch with the actual business values. This made us work harder on solutions and find ways to master financial management in the cloud.
Over time, we have already been able to save our customers many millions of dollars. Moreover, we are also proud partners of the FinOps Foundation and the leading professionals in Germany. Today, we want to share this knowledge with you and spread more awareness on the topic!