2.5.1 Workload Management & Automation
This capability may be known by many different names, including elasticity, variable spending, dynamic resource pro/deprovisioning, and so on. No matter the name we associate to this capability, it is one of the primary benefits of cloud and a fundamental aspect of the FinOps practice.
FinOps Certified Professional
Advanced
Self-Paced
2.5.2 Resource Utilization & Efficiency
In context to FinOps, resource utilization is about making sure you are getting sufficient business value for the cost. It is necessary to observe a resource’s utilization over time to understand if the performance, availability or other quality metrics are of value for the expense incurred.
FinOps Certified Professional
Advanced
Self-Paced
2.8.1.1 Azure Billing Mechanics
An overview of Azure billing mechanics including billing hierarchy, billing organization, data structures, and optimizations mechanics.
FinOps Certified Professional
Advanced
Self-Paced
2.2.3 Data Analysis and Showback
Data analysis and showback is the ability to leverage data, along with metadata on cloud resources and resource hierarchies, to create a near “real time” reporting mechanism for stakeholders
FinOps Certified Professional
Advanced
Self-Paced
2.2.0 Understanding Cloud Usage & Cost
Within this Domain, the organization will work to gather all required information about its cloud usage and cost, normalize it, make it available for review, including circulating it to those personas that will use it in other Domains.
$100
FinOps Certified Professional
Advanced
Self-Paced
Introduction to FinOps
The Introduction to FinOps course provides a basic understanding of activities that are central to FinOps, as well as the mission of the FinOps Foundation. We invite you to explore FinOps through the lens of one of the following Personas who interact with FinOps Practitioners: Leadership, Finance, Procurement, Product, or Engineering. Select the persona that resonates with you most, and embark on a tailored journey.
FREE
Beginner
Self-Paced
2.4.0 Real-Time Decision Making Domain
This Domain improves stakeholder enablement by curating data in stakeholder-specific contexts, iteratively improving decision velocity and aligning organizational processes to the realities of operating in the cloud.
FinOps Certified Professional
Advanced
Self-Paced
2.8.1 Cloud Billing Mechanics
Cloud Billing Mechanics describes how organizations incur charges for using cloud services, reconcile charges with cloud usage, pay suppliers, and use billing data to optimize the business value of cloud.
FinOps Certified Professional
Advanced
Self-Paced
2.3.0 Performance Tracking & Benchmarking Domains
Within this domain, the organization sets and maps its usage and cost to budgets, uses historical information to forecast, and establishes and measures KPIs and other performance indicators, including benchmarking.
Advanced
Self-Paced
2.7.0 Organizational Alignment Domain
Within this domain, the organization acts and automates to manage cloud use within the context of other IT Finance activities, and integrates FinOps capabilities with existing organizational processes, organizational units, and technology.
FinOps Certified Professional
Advanced
Self-Paced
2.2.2 Managing Shared Cost
This is one of the most important, impactful and central capabilities of any FinOps practice, and one that requires a lot of domain knowledge to do well with the volume and pace of data in cloud, and the consistency required by the end results
FinOps Certified Professional
Advanced
Self-Paced
FinOps Certified Engineer
The FinOps Certified Engineer course is suited for engineers who design, develop, and deliver infrastructure in the cloud. In this course, Engineers will learn how to work with FinOps Practitioners and other stakeholders to optimize cloud use and drive business value from cloud operations.
$699
2 Modules
Intermediate
Self-Paced
FinOps Certified Engineer
FinOps Certified FOCUS Analyst
PRESALE: In addition to the what and why, this course dives deep into how a FinOps practitioner can leverage FOCUS-compliant datasets to perform FinOps activities and measure business value. Get hands-on practice with real billing data in a FOCUS-compliant format.
$400
1 Course
Intermediate
Self-Paced
FOCUS
2.6.0 Cloud Rate Optimization Domain
Within this domain, the organization works to define its pricing model goals, uses historical data to make pricing model adjustments, and works to manage the pricing aspects of services.
FinOps Certified Professional
Advanced
Self-Paced
FinOps Team - Interactive Session One
The first virtual instructor-led session in the FinOps Certified Professional course. This session focuses on the FinOps vision, teams, roadmap, and creating a business case for change.
FinOps Certified Professional
Virtual Instructor-Led
Self-Paced
2.8.1.2 GCP Billing Mechanics
An overview of Google Cloud Provider billing mechanics including GCP resource hierarchy, billing concepts, rate optimizations, detailed usage, and billing data.
Limited availability
37 min
FinOps Certified Professional
Advanced
Self-Paced
2.4.0 Real-Time Decision Making Domain
This Domain improves stakeholder enablement by curating data in stakeholder-specific contexts, iteratively improving decision velocity and aligning organizational processes to the realities of operating in the cloud.
FinOps Certified Professional
Advanced
Self-Paced
2.5.2 Resource Utilization & Efficiency
In context to FinOps, resource utilization is about making sure you are getting sufficient business value for the cost. It is necessary to observe a resource’s utilization over time to understand if the performance, availability or other quality metrics are of value for the expense incurred.
FinOps Certified Professional
Advanced
Self-Paced
2.8.1.1 Azure Billing Mechanics
An overview of Azure billing mechanics including billing hierarchy, billing organization, data structures, and optimizations mechanics.
FinOps Certified Professional
Advanced
Self-Paced
2.8.1.2 GCP Billing Mechanics
An overview of Google Cloud Provider billing mechanics including GCP resource hierarchy, billing concepts, rate optimizations, detailed usage, and billing data.
Limited availability
37 min
FinOps Certified Professional
Advanced
Self-Paced
2.2.0 Understanding Cloud Usage & Cost
Within this Domain, the organization will work to gather all required information about its cloud usage and cost, normalize it, make it available for review, including circulating it to those personas that will use it in other Domains.
$100
FinOps Certified Professional
Advanced
Self-Paced
2.2.2 Managing Shared Cost
This is one of the most important, impactful and central capabilities of any FinOps practice, and one that requires a lot of domain knowledge to do well with the volume and pace of data in cloud, and the consistency required by the end results
FinOps Certified Professional
Advanced
Self-Paced
2.2.3 Data Analysis and Showback
Data analysis and showback is the ability to leverage data, along with metadata on cloud resources and resource hierarchies, to create a near “real time” reporting mechanism for stakeholders
FinOps Certified Professional
Advanced
Self-Paced
2.8.1 Cloud Billing Mechanics
Cloud Billing Mechanics describes how organizations incur charges for using cloud services, reconcile charges with cloud usage, pay suppliers, and use billing data to optimize the business value of cloud.
FinOps Certified Professional
Advanced
Self-Paced
2.3.0 Performance Tracking & Benchmarking Domains
Within this domain, the organization sets and maps its usage and cost to budgets, uses historical information to forecast, and establishes and measures KPIs and other performance indicators, including benchmarking.
Advanced
Self-Paced
2.5.1 Workload Management & Automation
This capability may be known by many different names, including elasticity, variable spending, dynamic resource pro/deprovisioning, and so on. No matter the name we associate to this capability, it is one of the primary benefits of cloud and a fundamental aspect of the FinOps practice.
FinOps Certified Professional
Advanced
Self-Paced
FinOps Team - Interactive Session One
The first virtual instructor-led session in the FinOps Certified Professional course. This session focuses on the FinOps vision, teams, roadmap, and creating a business case for change.
FinOps Certified Professional
Virtual Instructor-Led
Self-Paced
2.6.0 Cloud Rate Optimization Domain
Within this domain, the organization works to define its pricing model goals, uses historical data to make pricing model adjustments, and works to manage the pricing aspects of services.
FinOps Certified Professional
Advanced
Self-Paced
2.7.0 Organizational Alignment Domain
Within this domain, the organization acts and automates to manage cloud use within the context of other IT Finance activities, and integrates FinOps capabilities with existing organizational processes, organizational units, and technology.
FinOps Certified Professional
Advanced
Self-Paced
2.8.1.2 GCP Billing Mechanics
An overview of Google Cloud Provider billing mechanics including GCP resource hierarchy, billing concepts, rate optimizations, detailed usage, and billing data.
Limited availability
37 min
FinOps Certified Professional
Advanced
Self-Paced