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Introduction to FinOps
- Self-paced
- Free Access
- Fee-based Certificate
- 6 Sequences
- Introductive Level
Course details
Syllabus
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 principles of FinOps which guide its practice in an organization
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 practitioners, cloud users, finance professionals, DevOps engineers and product managers to work with others around the world to learn best practices and support one another
Prerequisite
- Have a basic level of working knowledge about at least one of the major cloud providers
- Understand basic terminology of the cloud
- Have a basic level of understanding of IT finance terminology.
Instructors
J.R. Storment
Executive Director
FinOps Foundation (F2)
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