We now depend on cloud to deliver digital value to customers. But DevOps and cloud have broken traditional procurement. Learn how FinOps gets IT, business and finance working together to leverage cloud to innovate, deliver and make money in this free course.
Training Course
Introduction to FinOps (LFS175x)
Who Is It For
This course is addressed to a wide audience including technical professionals (IT, DevOps, engineers, architects), finance, procurement, and accounting professionals, business unit or product managers, and executives.
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What You’ll Learn
In this course you will learn about the impacts DevOps and cloud have had on how IT costs are managed, what FinOps is and how it can address some of these impacts, the considerations that go into forming a FinOps team within an organization, the scope of the capabilities a FinOps team would perform to achieve the cloud use goals of the organization, how the FinOps Foundation can help with best practices and support, and more.
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What It Prepares You For
This course will prepare product teams to be more responsive to customer demand, for DevOps teams to build faster and better, and for cloud spend to be managed tightly. You will understand how to build a culture of accountability around cloud use that lets your organization make good, timely, data-backed decisions in the cloud, not just to save money, but to make money.
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Welcome!
Chapter 1. What is FinOps?
Chapter 2. Why FinOps?
Chapter 3. Culture Change & FinOps Teams
Chapter 4. FinOps Lifecycle
Final Exam (Verified Certificate track only)
Prerequisites
- A basic level of working knowledge about at least one of the major cloud providers.
- An understanding of basic terminology of the cloud.
- Have a basic level of understanding of IT finance terminology.
Sep 2023
It was very informative, and I could relate the study material to my everyday job functions.
Sep 2023
The content was concise, easy to understand, and relevant.
Jun 2023
The structure of the course is great, and easy to follow.
Jun 2023
Clean content aligned with the chapter objectives.
Apr 2023
It was a great introduction to FinOps. I think the course did a very good job of presenting all the key elements pertaining to FinOps.
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Online, Self Paced
2 Hours of Course Material
Graded Quizzes (for paid certificate only)
Discussion Forums
6 Weeks of Free Access to Online Course (Audit Mode)
Optional Paid Certificate of Completion
