FinOps for Scalable Infrastructure
FinOps for Scalable Infrastructure
In an era where AI and Cloud costs are exploding, simply managing infrastructure is no longer enough; you must make it profitable. This course teaches you the art of FinOps—the intersection of finance and DevOps. You will learn to optimize AWS and Azure resources through Infrastructure as Code (Terraform), implement real-time cost monitoring, and deploy intelligent auto-scaling. Using a unique 'Budget Simulation' method, you will inherit a 'money-bleeding' infrastructure and be tasked with rewriting its code to slash the bill by 50% while maintaining performance. Warning: every configuration error costs virtual points in this high-stakes efficiency training.
Lessons
- Introduction to FinOps: Why Cost is a Feature
- The Cost of AI and Modern Scalability
- Cloud Pricing 101: AWS vs. Azure Models
- Terraform Foundations for FinOps
- Lab Setup: The Money-Bleeding Infrastructure
- The Power of Tags: Allocating Every Cent
- Real-time Monitoring with AWS Cost Explorer
- Azure Cost Management and Billing
- Rightsizing: Finding the Goldilocks Zone
- Compute Savings: Reserved Instances & Savings Plans
- Spot Instances: High Risk, High Reward
- Storage Tiering: Don't Pay for 'Hot' Data
- EBS and Managed Disks: The Orphaned Volume Problem
- Networking Costs: The Silent Killer
- Auto-scaling Strategy: Vertical vs Horizontal
- Smart Scaling with Custom Metrics
- Serverless FinOps: Lambda and Function Costs
- Database Optimization: RDS and CosmosDB
- Log Analysis: Hunting for Waste in CloudWatch
- Setting up Budget Alerts and Guardrails
- Terraform Cost Estimation with Infracost
- The Multi-Cloud FinOps Challenge
- Kubernetes FinOps: Monitoring Pod Costs
- Governance: Using Service Control Policies (SCPs)
- Clean-up Automation with Janitor Monkey / AWS Instance Scheduler
- Cultural Shift: Talking to Engineers about Money
- Advanced Terraform Modules for Efficiency
- Daily Log Analysis: Hunting for Configuration Errors
- Final Challenge: Divide the Bill by Two
- Course Conclusion and Certification Paths