What you'll learn

Cloud costs are created by hundreds of distributed decisions and are seen only when the bill arrives. In this course, FinOps for Modern Cloud Organizations, you’ll gain the ability to explain cloud spend, assign cost accountability, and evaluate cloud cost decisions in a modern organization. First, you’ll explore the business and engineering problems FinOps is meant to solve. Next, you’ll discover how architecture, usage patterns, service configuration, data movement, and specialized workloads drive cloud spend. Finally, you’ll learn how to evaluate cost decisions using business value and engineering tradeoffs. When you’re finished with this course, you’ll have the skills and knowledge of FinOps needed to participate in cost-aware planning, ownership, and decision-making across cloud teams.