lab challenge
AWS FinOps End-To-End Lab Challenge
Difficulty: Intermediate
Duration: Up to 1 hour and 30 minutes
Students: 29
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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Covered topics
Mission
Step 1