*We know each team has their own needs and specifications. That is why we can modify the training outline per need.
Module 1: FinOps foundations and cost visibility
- The FinOps principles and lifecycle in simple terms
- Cost data sources billing exports, APIs, and usage metrics
- Building a reliable cost dictionary services, regions, discounts, credits
- Tagging and account structure patterns that support reporting
Module 2: Allocation and unit economics
- Showback and chargeback models and when to use each
- Tags, labels, accounts, and shared cost split strategies
- Unit cost metrics cost per customer, per transaction, per environment
- Cost of idle and cost of change as decision signals
Module 3: Forecasting and budgets
- Top down and bottom up forecasting and handling seasonality
- Budget thresholds and alerts that teams accept
- Anomaly detection basics and triage playbook
- Reconciling finance calendars with engineering releases
Module 4: Tooling overview and quick wins
- Native tools at a glance AWS Cost Explorer, Azure Cost Management, GCP Billing
- Cost and usage data pipelines into analytics platforms
- Starter dashboards for leaders, product owners, and engineers
- Five quick wins rightsizing, stop schedules, storage tiers, data retention, cleanup
Module 5: Compute and storage optimization
- Rightsizing patterns and autoscaling hygiene
- Reservations and savings plans selection and coverage
- Spot and preemptible usage with graceful fallback
- Storage classes, lifecycle rules, snapshots, and backups
Module 6: Network, data, and platform choices
- Egress awareness and locality patterns
- Managed services tradeoffs price, performance, operational load
- Data platform costs queries, partitions, caching, and retention
- Architectural options that reduce cost without hurting reliability
Module 7: Guardrails, governance, and KPIs
- Policies that guide spend budgets, quotas, and controls in CI or CD
- Cost as code tagging checks, budget tests, and policy as code
- KPIs and targets coverage, savings realized, forecast accuracy
- Role clarity product, engineering, finance, and FinOps team
Module 8: Adoption and roadmap
- Intake process for optimization opportunities
- Prioritization by impact and effort and a simple benefits tracker
- Operating rhythms weekly reviews, monthly reporting, quarterly planning
- Ninety day adoption plan and a template pack for your teams
