AWS Cost Management Tools (Cost Explorer) Crash Course

Learn everything about AWS Cost Explorer, Cloud Financial Management and Reserved Instance/Savings Plan

4.61 (584 reviews)
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Jan 2021
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What you will learn

Analyze AWS cloud cost and usage with AWS Cost Explorer

Visualize trends with appropriate filters, grouping and chart types

Create reports to answer specific cloud spend questions

Build budget, forecasts and alerts for cost, usage and reservations

Manage Reserved Instances (RI) and Savings Plan (SP)

Solve real life problems based on demos and case studies

Description

In this course, you will learn everything you need to know about Cost Explorer, the native AWS cost management tool.

By the end of the course, you will be able to:

- Analyze AWS cloud cost and usage with AWS Cost Explorer

- Visualize trends with appropriate filters, grouping and chart types

- Build budget, forecasts and alerts for cost, usage and reservations

- Manage Reserved Instances (RI) and Savings Plans (SP)

- Create reports to answer specific cloud spend questions

- Solve real life problems based on demos and case studies

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Why should I take this course?

Is your company using AWS? Do you need to understand how cloud cost impact your product and business?

My name is Jimmy, welcome to this AWS Cost Explorer Crash Course. I built this course based on my years of real life cloud financial management experience.

More and more companies build their products on AWS, but most people have a really hard time understanding how to analyze cloud spend.

If your company uses AWS and you are in engineering, finance, operation or product, at some point you will need to know how to see, analyze and manage your cloud cost.

Cost Explorer is a free, native AWS tool available to anyone with an AWS account, but figuring how to use it properly can be tricky.

Throughout the course, there will be additional reading materials and quizzes to augment your learning. This class will save you many hours figuring out the tool on your own.

If this sounds good to you, enroll in the course, and I look forward to seeing you there!

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Content

Introduction

Welcome to the Course!
Cost Explorer Overview
Unblended Cost vs Amortized Cost

Case Studies - Common Cost Explorer Scenarios

Case Study 1 - Prepare An Executive Cost Summary
Case Study 2 - Forecast AWS Cost for the Next 3 Months
Case Study 3 - Identify Daily Cost Fluctuations
Case Study 4 - Analyze EC2 Cost and Usage by Instance Type
Case Study 5 - Break Down "EC2-Other" Cost
Case Study 6 - Illustrate Cost Seasonality by Region
Case Study 7 - Isolate Cost of Resources with Tags
Case Studies 1 - 7 Review

Reserved Instances (RI) and Savings Plans (SP)

RI/SP Section Intro
Refresher - AWS Pricing Models
Supplemental Reading - AWS Pricing Model Whitepaper
Case Study 8 - Analyze EC2 Spend by Purchase Option
Case Study 9 - RI and SP Coverage and Utilization
Case Study 10 - Interpret RI recommendations
Case Study 11 - Purchase RI and SP
Optional Lesson 1: How to Look Up AWS Pricing?
Optional Lesson 2: RI/SP Discount Variation Deep Dive
Optional Lesson 3: Compare RI vs SP Technical Differences
Optional Reading - Reserved Instances vs Savings Plans Strategies

Create and Manage budgets

Budget Section Intro
Budget Overview
Case Study 12 - Set up a Cost Budget
Case Study 13 - Create a Usage Budget (Data Transfer)
Case Study 14 - Automatic Alerts for Low Savings Plan Utilization
Subscribe to Summary Budget Reports

Wrap up

Course Completion!

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Reviews

Steve
September 14, 2023
Excellent course! I learned everything that I needed to know about Reserved Instances and Savings Plans.
Diego
May 24, 2023
Concreto, claramente explicado y enseña un flujo de trabajo seguramente llevaría mucho tiempo diseñarlo y perder dinero en el transcurso.
Tamas
May 11, 2023
Great course, it should be made into a longer one with more details of data analysis, use cases, integration of reports with other tools. It has great potential at the moment it's an intro.
Shabbir
January 1, 2023
It would have been great, If you added how to optimise the aws cost other than just showing setting up reports etc
Victor
October 8, 2022
It's very good! Well explained, with multiple examples. However, I feel like there could be some "advice" section on how to optimize costs, beyond what AWS recommends, and more importantly, some more examples regarding RDS, since the majority of what is discussed is EC2 instances.
June
August 15, 2022
Highly recommend it for Finance or Operation professionals! Very detailed walk-throughs yet concise. I found it especially helpful with all the sample case studies!
Rhonda
July 15, 2022
The quality of videos is pretty poor; zooming in and making his presentation readable would have helped a lot. Zooming into the screen on my end doesn't even help!! I really advise to redo all the video lectures.
Julie
July 7, 2022
Pretty good course for AWS Cost beginners, somehow Sec 4 #25 "Create a Usage Budget" had the wrong video (same as 27) but other than that the course covered basic info and well explained!
Monica
June 27, 2022
Great course on Cost Management: brief and straight to the point. Note that some of the aws screens referred in this material are now (June 2022) outdated. Yet, the core information remains VERY useful, well explained and delivered in easy to follow short-lectures. I totally recommend it for Ops and Finance people as introduction training regarding aws cost.
Arnav
March 12, 2022
Great Course Jimmy, Cost explorer was a black box to me till I went through this course. Just a small note, Compute Savings plan now includes Fargate as well!
Bryce
January 26, 2022
I'd love to understand what some of the different services mean. From someone with a non-technical background, i dont know what EC2, Savings Plans, etc mean. Would be great to briefly explain this throughout this course. If there is a different course that helps teach these things, i'd love to take it!
Nishanth
January 23, 2022
This was an excellent walk-through of AWS services and cost management. It can be very daunting for new ppl just starting to learn the AWS universe but you made it look simple. Thank you!
Santosh
January 20, 2022
This was really an amazing course to know the details around costing and budgeting, course delivery and presentation is spot on as well !!!
Bonnie
January 11, 2021
Great course - with good explanations and very detailed walk-throughs using sample use cases / case studies. Helpful for me as a new AWS Cost Management user. I enjoyed the structure of each video - starting with intent, considerations, and then the "how-to".
Shawn
January 8, 2021
Great video quality and content. Lecture/demos are short and sweet. It's great to see how more real life data (rather than just some accounts showing like $20 of cost), which make the data cuts more meaningful to look at. The course is focused on the cost management tools as stated. I would love to see another course or expansion of the course to discuss cloud financial management/business case for AWS broadly etc

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