This is a comprehensive & detailed video series that goes broader & deeper than other courses on this topic. Pound for pound, the most thorough coverage of Azure Cost Optimization considerations.
Your instructor is a FinOps expert with real-world cloud optimization results who is a certified cloud architect at the expert level in Azure Solution Architecture and professional level in AWS Solution Architecture.
Learn why:
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This is a comprehensive & detailed video series that goes broader & deeper than other courses on this topic. Pound for pound, the most thorough coverage of Azure Cost Optimization considerations.
Your instructor is a FinOps expert with real-world cloud optimization results who is a certified cloud architect at the expert level in Azure Solution Architecture and professional level in AWS Solution Architecture.
Learn why:
This is a comprehensive & detailed video series that goes broader & deeper than other courses on this topic. Pound for pound, the most thorough coverage of Azure Cost Optimization considerations.
Your instructor is a FinOps expert with real-world cloud optimization results who is a certified cloud architect at the expert level in Azure Solution Architecture and professional level in AWS Solution Architecture.
Learn why:
Companies waste $90 Billion+ yearly in public cloud spend
94% of Enterprises are Significantly overspending on public cloud
#1 Cloud Challenge for 82% of organizations: Managing Cloud Spend
…and how to fix it.
Actual Recent Reviews from Udemy:
"You are truly one of the better instructors on the platform. We need more content from you."
"Very organized, clear and great delivery of information"
"THE best online course I've taken. Packed with high quality lessons. Can't recommend this enough."
"as good as others say it is"
"Great presentation style and concise course materials. Highly recommended."
Course Benefits
Level up your career & get a higher paying job with FinOps
Become the cost-saving hero at your organization
Save your company 30-40% on your Azure cloud bill
Learn enterprise-grade best practices from an expert in the field
Gain 100+ optimization ideas for your cloud toolbelt
Course Differentiators
Enterprise-grade practices & principles taught by an expert with proven results
Helps you understand & Fix the root of the problem that leads to waste
Sustainable strategies to prevent waste from the start
Quantity of Cost-Saving Optimizations
Production & Editing Quality
Breadth of Quality topic coverage
Nearly all of the cloud cost management principles taught apply to other cloud providers such as Amazon Web Services AWS, Google Cloud Platform GCP, and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure OCI. However the tooling, resources, and many of the techniques are specific to the Microsoft Azure cloud. Save money in Azure. Save money in the cloud.
Instructor
I’m currently a Principal Cloud Architect. I’ve been working in IT for over 25 years and working in cloud computing for almost the past 10 years. I’ve held technical and leadership roles focused on development, operations, engineering, and architecture. And I hold professional & expert level certifications in AWS and Azure clouds.
I’ve led FinOps practices, created world-class cloud cost reporting dashboards in Power BI, trained teams on cloud financial management best practices, and led company-wide cloud savings and optimization initiatives for AWS and Azure clouds, saving over 10M dollars in spend.
Course Statistics
78 Videos
7+ Hours of Lectures
100+ Quiz Questions
75 Exam Questions
100+ Optimizations
1 Purpose (Save [& ultimately make] Money)
Who Course is For
Anyone using Azure who works in IT, engineering, finance, procurement, product ownership, executives or leadership will benefit from this expert guidance.
Technology – CIO, Cloud Managers, Architects, Engineers, Developers, Data
Finance – CFO, Finance Managers, Cloud Financial Analysts
Anyone requesting or deploying resources in the cloud
Anyone wanting to save money in the cloud or master Azure Cost Management
This course also comes with:
Lifetime access to all future updates
A responsive instructor in the Q&A Section
Udemy Certificate of Completion for Download
30-day "No Questions Asked" Money Back Guarantee
Principles taught in this course will contribute to your ability pass Microsoft Exams for certification like AZ-900, AZ-104, AZ-305, DP-900
Prerequisites
The Prerequisites for this course are a working understanding of IT concepts and fundamental understanding of Azure & Cloud computing concepts.
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What's inside
Learning objectives
- Learn 100’s of strategic & tactical cost optimizations across microsoft azure services such as azure virtual machines, azure storage, databases & more
- Master real-world techniques from a cloud finops expert with azure expert & aws professional certifications who’s saved $10m+ in cloud spend
- Become a cost-saving hero at your company by capitalizing on $100b+ worldwide cloud waste savings opportunity
- Build a roadmap to save your company 30% or more on your azure cloud bill
- Upskill & start a career in the flourishing field of finops & cloud cost management & optimization
- Analyze & explain complex azure service billing models, usage charges, invoices, meters
- Implement finops principles & cloud operating models that lead to cultural change & sustainable cloud savings
- Master the azure commitment & discount models, reservations, savings plans, hybrid benefits, dev/test pricing, etc.
- Create visibility into distributed cloud spending with advanced data analytics, dashboards & reporting
- Understand & operate the azure tooling for estimating, visualizing, analyzing, exporting, budgeting, monitoring, alerting and more
- Explain the key differences between on premise & cloud operating models that lead to waste
- Understand, forecast, estimate & budget your microsoft azure cloud opex spending
- Identify key risks of cloud overspending so we can fix the root causes, not just the symptoms
- Weave cloud architecture and cloud management best practices into cloud economic strategies
- Apply cost allocation strategies to create accountability for cloud spend with showback & chargeback
- Leverage the variable, on demand, pay for use cost model of the cloud to prevent waste
- Understand important concepts such as chargeback, showback, cost allocation, meters, spot, autoscaling, serverless, paas, elasticity, resizing....
- ...overprovisioning, orphan, right-sizing, tiering, anomaly detection, autoscaling, spot, instance scheduling, storage lifecycles & more!
- Understand why 94% of companies routinely waste money in the cloud & how to stop it
- Modernize old procurement, purchasing and financial management processes built for legacy capex models
- Understand platform as a service (paas), infrastructure as a service models (iaas) relationship to cloud costs
- Architect, govern & operate your cloud environment with cost-effective cloud-native paas services
- Master tagging, subscriptions, management groups & resource groups hierarchies & organization
- Cut cloud spending without affecting resiliency, availability, performance of apps
- Principles taught in this course will contribute to your ability pass microsoft exams for certification like az-900, az-104, az-305, dp-900
- …and much, much more
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- Learn 100’s of strategic & tactical cost optimizations across microsoft azure services such as azure virtual machines, azure storage, databases & more
- Master real-world techniques from a cloud finops expert with azure expert & aws professional certifications who’s saved $10m+ in cloud spend
- Become a cost-saving hero at your company by capitalizing on $100b+ worldwide cloud waste savings opportunity
- Build a roadmap to save your company 30% or more on your azure cloud bill
- Upskill & start a career in the flourishing field of finops & cloud cost management & optimization
- Analyze & explain complex azure service billing models, usage charges, invoices, meters
- Implement finops principles & cloud operating models that lead to cultural change & sustainable cloud savings
- Master the azure commitment & discount models, reservations, savings plans, hybrid benefits, dev/test pricing, etc.
- Create visibility into distributed cloud spending with advanced data analytics, dashboards & reporting
- Understand & operate the azure tooling for estimating, visualizing, analyzing, exporting, budgeting, monitoring, alerting and more
- Explain the key differences between on premise & cloud operating models that lead to waste
- Understand, forecast, estimate & budget your microsoft azure cloud opex spending
- Identify key risks of cloud overspending so we can fix the root causes, not just the symptoms
- Weave cloud architecture and cloud management best practices into cloud economic strategies
- Apply cost allocation strategies to create accountability for cloud spend with showback & chargeback
- Leverage the variable, on demand, pay for use cost model of the cloud to prevent waste
- Understand important concepts such as chargeback, showback, cost allocation, meters, spot, autoscaling, serverless, paas, elasticity, resizing....
- ...overprovisioning, orphan, right-sizing, tiering, anomaly detection, autoscaling, spot, instance scheduling, storage lifecycles & more!
- Understand why 94% of companies routinely waste money in the cloud & how to stop it
- Modernize old procurement, purchasing and financial management processes built for legacy capex models
- Understand platform as a service (paas), infrastructure as a service models (iaas) relationship to cloud costs
- Architect, govern & operate your cloud environment with cost-effective cloud-native paas services
- Master tagging, subscriptions, management groups & resource groups hierarchies & organization
- Cut cloud spending without affecting resiliency, availability, performance of apps
- Principles taught in this course will contribute to your ability pass microsoft exams for certification like az-900, az-104, az-305, dp-900
- …and much, much more
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Comprehensive azure finops masterclass
Positions learners for growth in cloud financial management.
Delivered by an instructor with proven real-world success.
Offers a deep and broad dive into Azure cost optimization.
Focuses on tangible methods to reduce cloud expenditure.
Activities
Calculating Microsoft Azure Cloud Costs
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Build a strong foundation in Azure pricing mechanics by stepping through a guided tutorial.
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Cloud Economics
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Access and sign in to the 'Azure Cost Calculator' website.
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Choose between the calculator or guided tour.
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Follow the prompts to calculate cloud costs for a specific configuration.
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Review the results and explore additional cost optimization strategies.
Azure Cost Optimization Study Group
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Collaborate with peers to discuss and explore cost optimization strategies in Azure.
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Form a study group with other students in the course.
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Schedule regular meetings to discuss course material and cost optimization techniques.
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Share knowledge, experiences, and insights related to Azure cost optimization.
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Work together to identify and implement cost-saving measures in your own projects.
Azure Cloud Cost Optimization Plan
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Create a comprehensive plan detailing your strategies for optimizing costs in Azure.
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Azure Cost Management
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Define goals and objectives for cost optimization.
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Review current cloud usage and identify areas for optimization.
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Research and compare various cost optimization techniques.
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Develop a plan outlining the specific actions to be taken to optimize costs.
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Monitor and evaluate the effectiveness of the plan and make adjustments as needed.
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Azure Cost Optimization Exercises
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Reinforce your understanding of Azure cost optimization through a series of hands-on exercises.
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Set up an Azure subscription and create a project.
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Deploy a sample application to Azure.
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Analyze cloud costs using Azure Cost Management tools.
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Implement cost optimization techniques, such as resizing VMs or using spot instances.
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Review cost savings and make further optimizations.
Azure Cost Optimization Consulting
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Apply your Azure cost optimization skills by volunteering to help organizations reduce their cloud spending.
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Community Involvement
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Identify organizations that could benefit from your expertise in Azure cost optimization.
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Reach out to organizations and offer your services as a volunteer consultant.
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Collaborate with organizations to assess their cloud usage and identify areas for optimization.
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Provide recommendations and guidance to help organizations implement cost-saving measures.
Azure Cost Optimization Case Study
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Develop a comprehensive case study showcasing how you optimized costs in an Azure cloud environment.
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Azure Cost Management
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Choose a real-world scenario or project where you implemented cost optimization measures.
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Gather data on cloud usage, costs, and optimization techniques used.
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Analyze the data to identify key cost drivers and areas for improvement.
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Develop a detailed report or presentation outlining your findings and recommendations.
Calculating Microsoft Azure Cloud Costs
Show steps
Build a strong foundation in Azure pricing mechanics by stepping through a guided tutorial.
Browse courses on
Cloud Economics
Show steps
- Access and sign in to the 'Azure Cost Calculator' website.
- Choose between the calculator or guided tour.
- Follow the prompts to calculate cloud costs for a specific configuration.
- Review the results and explore additional cost optimization strategies.
Azure Cost Optimization Study Group
Show steps
Collaborate with peers to discuss and explore cost optimization strategies in Azure.
Show steps
- Form a study group with other students in the course.
- Schedule regular meetings to discuss course material and cost optimization techniques.
- Share knowledge, experiences, and insights related to Azure cost optimization.
- Work together to identify and implement cost-saving measures in your own projects.
Azure Cloud Cost Optimization Plan
Show steps
Create a comprehensive plan detailing your strategies for optimizing costs in Azure.
Browse courses on
Azure Cost Management
Show steps
- Define goals and objectives for cost optimization.
- Review current cloud usage and identify areas for optimization.
- Research and compare various cost optimization techniques.
- Develop a plan outlining the specific actions to be taken to optimize costs.
- Monitor and evaluate the effectiveness of the plan and make adjustments as needed.
Azure Cost Optimization Exercises
Show steps
Reinforce your understanding of Azure cost optimization through a series of hands-on exercises.
Show steps
- Set up an Azure subscription and create a project.
- Deploy a sample application to Azure.
- Analyze cloud costs using Azure Cost Management tools.
- Implement cost optimization techniques, such as resizing VMs or using spot instances.
- Review cost savings and make further optimizations.
Azure Cost Optimization Consulting
Show steps
Apply your Azure cost optimization skills by volunteering to help organizations reduce their cloud spending.
Browse courses on
Community Involvement
Show steps
- Identify organizations that could benefit from your expertise in Azure cost optimization.
- Reach out to organizations and offer your services as a volunteer consultant.
- Collaborate with organizations to assess their cloud usage and identify areas for optimization.
- Provide recommendations and guidance to help organizations implement cost-saving measures.
Azure Cost Optimization Case Study
Show steps
Develop a comprehensive case study showcasing how you optimized costs in an Azure cloud environment.
Browse courses on
Azure Cost Management
Show steps
- Choose a real-world scenario or project where you implemented cost optimization measures.
- Gather data on cloud usage, costs, and optimization techniques used.
- Analyze the data to identify key cost drivers and areas for improvement.
- Develop a detailed report or presentation outlining your findings and recommendations.
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