Course Introduction
Cost Management
Improve Planning and Cost Control with AWS Budgets
AWS Cost Management: Tagging
Understanding & Optimizing Storage Costs with AWS Storage Services
Monitoring for underutilized services in AWS
Using Instance Scheduler to Optimize Resource Cost
The course is part of this learning path
This section of the AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Professional learning path introduces you to cost management concepts and services relevant to the SAP-C02 exam. By the end of this section, you will know how to select and apply AWS services to optimize cost in scenarios relevant to the AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Professional exam.
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Learning Objectives
- Learn how to improve planning and cost control with AWS Budgets
- Understand how to optimize storage costs
- Discover AWS services that allow you to monitor for underutilized resources
- Learn how the AWS Instance Scheduler may be used to optimize resource costs
Hello, and welcome to this course on cost management in AWS, where we’re here to help you on your journey to prepare for the AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Professional certification.
Before we get started, I’d like to introduce myself. My name is Danny Jessee, and I am one of the trainers here at Cloud Academy, specializing in AWS – Amazon Web Services – and AWS certifications.
In this course, the AWS team will be presenting a series of lectures that introduce the various services supporting cost management currently available in AWS that may be covered on the exam.
Feel free to contact me with any questions using the details shown on the screen, or you can always get in touch with us here at Cloud Academy by sending an email to support@cloudacademy.com, where one of our Cloud experts will reply to your question.
This course has been specifically curated to help you pass the AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Professional exam and is ideal for anyone who is looking to learn more about how to manage costs in AWS in preparation for the exam.
The objective of this course is to provide an introduction to cost management in AWS for solution architects, including:
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Improving planning and cost control with AWS Budgets,
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Understanding and optimizing storage costs,
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Monitoring for underutilized resources, and
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Using AWS Instance Scheduler to optimize resource cost.
Together with the other courses in this learning path, we’ll cover all of the key tools, technologies, and concepts from the AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Professional exam guide and ensure that you are fully prepared to sit this exam.
The AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Professional certification has been designed for anyone who has experience in a solutions architect role. You should also have experience using AWS services to design and implement cloud solutions based on the AWS Well-Architected Framework. All of the AWS Cloud concepts introduced in this course will be explained and reinforced from the ground up.
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Danny has over 20 years of IT experience as a software developer, cloud engineer, and technical trainer. After attending a conference on cloud computing in 2009, he knew he wanted to build his career around what was still a very new, emerging technology at the time — and share this transformational knowledge with others. He has spoken to IT professional audiences at local, regional, and national user groups and conferences. He has delivered in-person classroom and virtual training, interactive webinars, and authored video training courses covering many different technologies, including Amazon Web Services. He currently has six active AWS certifications, including certifications at the Professional and Specialty level.