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AWS Cost Management: Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)
Introduction
Difficulty
Beginner
Duration
7m
Students
431
Ratings
5/5
Description

Costs in cloud environments can get complicated quickly. Therefore it is essential to provide transparency and responsibility to everyone in a business. In this course, 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 course is intended for anyone who wants to learn how to manage their AWS cloud costs effectively.

Prerequisites

To get the most out of this course, you should have a basic understanding of AWS, as well as finance and cloud terminology.

 

Transcript

Hello and welcome to this AWS Cost Management Course, focusing on KPIs.

I am Heinrich Marks and I’m a FinOps Consultant at kreuzwerker Frankfurt GmbH. My focus is on cost optimization in the AWS cloud and the practice of FinOps methodology at the enterprise level. In fact, we are the leading FinOps professionals in Germany and cover many other fields related to AWS and Cloud Development. 

But enough of that, let’s get started with the course!

In this course, we will learn about KPIs, how to use them correctly, and how to make the most of them in your individual use case.

This course is aimed to be beginner-friendly and therefore does not require special knowledge. However, It is advisable that you are at least familiar with the following topics. 

  • Cost optimization theory
  • Cloud- and finance-related terminology
  • Basic knowledge of AWS

The main objective of this course is to learn what KPIs are and how you can use them.

Costs in cloud environments can get complicated quickly. Therefore it is essential to provide transparency and responsibility to everyone in a business, and this is our main goal.

On a side note, I’d like to add that our feedback on our courses is valuable to both us as trainers and any students looking to take the same course in the future. If you have any feedback, positive or negative, it would be greatly appreciated if you could send an e-mail to support@cloudacademy.com.

So, without further ado, let’s get started!

About the Author

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!