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AWS FinOps End-To-End Lab Challenge

Difficulty: Intermediate
Duration: Up to 1 hour and 30 minutes
Students: 43
Rating: 5/5
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Description

In this hands-on lab challenge, you’ll be provided with an immersive experience designed to test and enhance your proficiency in Financial Operations (FinOps) within Amazon Web Services (AWS). You’ll be faced with a real-world web application and be challenged to apply various cost optimization techniques while continuing to ensure peak operational performance.

By navigating through this multi-tiered challenge, you’ll refine your FinOps skills, and gain a deeper understanding of cost optimization and governance, emerging equipped with invaluable strategies to effectively manage running costs while maximizing the value of AWS services and resources.

Learning objectives

Upon completion of this intermediate-level lab, you will be able to:

  • Apply FinOps techniques and practices
  • Apply cost optimization
  • Perform right-sizing and autoscaling
  • Tag resources for cost allocation
  • Implement event-driven serverless patterns
  • Optimize storage costs

Prerequisites

  • Cost Optimization
  • FinOps
  • VPCs
  • Auto Scaling Groups
  • Lambda Functions
  • S3

Intended audience

  • Cloud Architects
  • Cloud Administrators
  • Cloud Engineers
  • DevOps Engineers

What will be assessed

  • FinOps
  • Cost Optimization
  • Right-sizing and Auto Scaling
  • Tagging and Cost Allocation
  • Event-Driven Serverless Architecture
  • Storage and Data Transfer

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Environment after

Covered topics

Management
Cost Optimization
FinOps
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