01 – Course Introduction
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Speaker introduction
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Training overview and course summary
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Motivation for this course
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Audience for this course
02 – Introduction to Cloud FinOps
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Overview of what Cloud FinOps is
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5 steps to get started with Cloud FinOps
03 – Cloud FinOps Framework
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Cloud FinOps Framework
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Principles, Personas, Phases, Maturity, Domains, Capabilities
04 – Cloud FinOps Principles
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Cloud FinOps Principles
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Teams need to collaborate
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Decisions are driven by business value of cloud
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Everyone takes ownership for their cloud usage
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Cloud FinOps data should be accessible and timely
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A centralized team drives Cloud FinOps
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Take advantage of the variable cost model of the cloud
05 – Cloud FinOps Personas
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Cloud FinOps Personas
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Cloud FinOps Practitioner
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Executives
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Business/Product Owner
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Finance
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Engineering and Operations
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Procurement
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Security
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ITAM Leader / Practitioner
06 – Cloud FinOps Phases
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Cloud FinOps Phases
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Inform, Optimize, Operate
07 – Cloud FinOps Maturity Model
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Cloud FinOps Maturity Model
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Crawl, Walk, Run
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Established, Enhanced, Excel
08 – Cloud FinOps Team
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Executives need to understand Cloud FinOps and provide support top down
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Ability for the team to reach out to all other groups within the organization
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Members need strong verbal and written skills to partner, collaborate, drive, negotiate, evangelize, and train
09 – Cloud FinOps Common Language
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Engineers, Finance, FinOps, Cloud use different vocabulary
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Need to connect different disciplines
10 – Cloud FinOps Partnership and Collaboration
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Cloud FinOps Practitioner
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Executives
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Business/Product Owner
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Finance
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Engineering and Operations
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Procurement
11 – Cloud FinOps Domains
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Cloud FinOps Domains
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Understanding Cloud Usage and Cost
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Performance Tracking & Benchmarking
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Real-Time Decision Making
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Cloud Rate Optimization
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Cloud Usage Optimization
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Organizational Alignment
12 – Cloud FinOps and Other Methodologies
DevOps, Agile, IT Asset Management (ITAM), IT Service Management (ITSM), Technology Business Management (TBM), the Cloud Service Provider Well-Architected Framework, Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD), Sustainability, and the Cloud Center of Excellence (CCoE)
13 – Cloud FinOps Capabilities Overview
14 – Cloud FinOps Capabilities
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Measuring Unit Costs
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Managing Shared Cost
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Managing Anomalies
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Forecasting
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Data Ingestion & Normalization
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Cost Allocation (Metadata & Hierarchy)
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Data Analysis and Showback
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Resource Utilization & Efficiency
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Managing Commitment Based Discounts
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Budget Management
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Establishing a FinOps Decision & Accountability Structure
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Intersection of Cloud FinOps & Sustainability
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Workload Management & Automation
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Onboarding Workloads
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Intersection of FinOps & ITFM/TBM
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Cloud Policy & Governance
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Establishing FinOps Culture
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FinOps Education & Enablement
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Chargeback & Finance Integration
15- How to Adopt a Cloud FinOps Practice
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Adopting FinOps Deck Oct 2021
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Plan, socialize, prepare, launch, run
16 – How to Manage Commitment Based Discounts
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This is a critical skill for rate reduction that can be done centrally
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Deep dive in how to manage RIs & SPs (AWS), CUDs (GCP), Reservations (Azure)
17 – How to Overcome the Top Cloud FinOps Challenges
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Getting to unit economics
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Implementing Cloud FinOps at scale
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Empowering engineers to take action
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Accurate forecasting
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Reducing waste
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Organizational adoption of Cloud FinOps
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Fully allocating cloud spend
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Enabling automation
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Container cost reporting
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Leadership buy in of Cloud FinOps
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Allocating shared costs
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Aligning finance with engineering
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Managing commitment based discounts
18 – Course Wrap Up