FinOps Training.
Become a FinOps expert with our popular, practical training taught by people who live and breathe the cloud.
Get FinOps certified with engaging courses taught by Europe’s cloud-native FinOps experts.
Financial cloud management (FinOps) is a combination of people, processes and tools that help your organisation take full advantage of costs savings from cloud. Nordcloud FinOps training gets your teams certified with skills and best practices to maximise that savings potential.
We’re one of Europe’s few certified FinOps Training Providers
As a result, you’re learning from people at the cutting edge of this emerging area, helping you get the capabilities needed to drive ongoing cost optimisation as the organisation does more with cloud.
Our courses cater to all skill levels and are open to everyone.
Currently scheduled courses
FinOps Certified Practitioner; Stockholm - Virtual Session (FCP2503SEV)
This 2-day remote course is for people who want to learn FinOps best practices and become a certified practitioner.
FinOps Certified Practitioner; Stockholm - Virtual Session (FCP2503SEV)
This 2-day remote course is for people who want to learn FinOps best practices and become a certified practitioner.
PRICE
€ 1,500 (excl VAT)
ABOUT THE COURSE
The FinOps Certified Practitioner course allows individuals in a large variety of cloud, finance and technology roles to validate their FinOps knowledge and enhance their professional credibility. The certification covers FinOps fundamentals and an overview of key concepts in each of the three sections of the FinOps lifecycle: Inform, Optimize and Operate.
LANGUAGE
The course will be taught in English.
THIS COURSE IS INTENDED FOR
- Cloud budget owners
- FinOps practitioners like FinOps Analysts, Directors of Cloud Optimisation, Cloud Operations Managers and Cloud Cost Optimisation Data Analysts
- Engineering roles like Principal Systems Engineers, Cloud Architects, Service Delivery Managers, Engineering Managers, Platform Engineering
- Directors, Senior Enterprise Architects (EA) and EA Leaders
- IT Programme and Portfolio Management Leaders
- Tech leaders like Head of Infrastructure, Head of Cloud Centre of Excellence, CTO and CIO
- Finance and procurement people like Technology Procurement Managers, Financial Planning Managers and Analysts, Cloud Cost Optimisation
- Managers and Financial Business Advisors
- Finance leaders like Head of IT Finance and CFO of IT
RECOMMENDED PREREQUISITES
- Understand the basics of how cloud computing works, know the key services on your cloud providers, including their common use cases, and have a basic understanding of billing and pricing models.
- Be able to describe the basic value proposition of running in cloud and understand the core concept of using a pay-as-you-go consumption model.
- Have a base level of knowledge of at least one of the three main public cloud providers (AWS, Azure, Google Cloud). For AWS, we recommend AWS Business Professional training or, even better, the AWS Cloud Practitioner certification. For Google, check out Google Cloud Digital Leader course. For Azure, try the Azure Fundamentals learning path. Each can usually be completed in a full-day workshop.
WHAT YOU GET WITH THIS COURSE
- Live (virtual) 2-day, instructor-led workshop (10 hours total)
- Lead instructor is a real-world practising FinOps leader
- Interactive approach, featuring group discussions and live activities. Come prepared to share your experiences and ask questions!
- Small class sizes to provide maximum interactivity and tailor discussions to participant challenges and questions
- FinOps Certified Practitioner exam voucher
- At the end of the course you will get access to self-study material. This includes all the digital, video and course materials in the self-paced course for study or review ($599 value)
THIS COURSE IS DESIGNED TO TEACH YOU
- What FinOps is for, including the 3 elements of the FinOps lifecycle: Inform, Optimise and Operate
- FinOps best practices, including KPIs and benchmarks, repeatable processes and tools to achieve measurable business outcomes
- How showbacks and chargebacks work
- Various stakeholders’ roles and responsibilities in cloud cost optimisation
AGENDA
Day 1 - FinOps concepts and basics
- Cloud cost management challenges
- Core FinOps principles
- Building a FinOps team
- FinOps capabilities
- FinOps and other methodologies (e.g., Agile, DevOps, hyperscaler Cloud Adoption Frameworks)
- Anatomy of a cloud bill
Day 2 - FinOps practice
- The FinOps lifecycle
- Inform phase - transparency, benchmarking, cost allocation, tagging, forecasting and budgeting
- Optimise phase - business case development, goals and metrics, workload management, rightsizing, reservations, discounts
- Operate phase - team alignment, automation, unit economics
CANCELLATION & PAYMENT POLICY
All prices are net prices. VAT will be added to the price. You have the right to cancel your registration free of charge up until 15 days prior to the event. Nordcloud holds the right to cancel the event 14 days prior to the event, in which case all paid seats will be refunded. A final event confirmation message will be sent to all registrants 14 days prior to the event. No refunds will be paid after the final event confirmation message has been sent. In case the event is cancelled a cancellation message will be sent.
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Customised FinOps training
Get in-house FinOps training – for whole departments or specific teams, with content tailored to your challenges and goals.
Customised FinOps training
Get in-house FinOps training – for whole departments or specific teams, with content tailored to your challenges and goals.
ABOUT THE TRAINING
Our customised FinOps training is ideal for those looking to build broader FinOps capabilities within their organisation.Workshop content builds on the FinOps Certified Practitioner curriculum, with activities and discussions designed around your organisational structure, processes, cloud estate and current FinOps maturity.
LANGUAGE
The course will be taught in English.
THIS TRAINING IS IDEAL FOR
- Building teams of in-house FinOps experts
- Laying the foundation for a FinOps culture across teams in the organisation
- Delivering focused FinOps training for specific teams, like Engineering or Finance
- Combining FinOps Certified Practitioner knowledge with more advanced skills and capabilities
WHY NORDCLOUD TRAINING
- Your instructors are at the cutting edge of this emerging area, working every day helping organisations across Europe embed effective FinOps processes and maxmise their cloud cost optimisation potential
- We’re one of Europe’s few certified FinOps Training Providers, as well as a certified Platform Provider and a certified Service Provider
- We’re known for delivering fun, engaging and interesting training that people enjoy attending - helping people build skills and knowledge that they actually apply when they’re back at their desks
FinOps Certified Practitioner
This 2-day remote course is for people who want to learn FinOps best practices and become a certified practitioner.
FinOps Certified Practitioner
This 2-day remote course is for people who want to learn FinOps best practices and become a certified practitioner.
PRICE
€ 1,500 (excl VAT)
ABOUT THE COURSE
This course is an introduction to FinOps fundamentals. It’s ideal for people in a range of business, finance and technology roles, helping build your skills and credibility for driving cost savings from cloud.
LANGUAGE
The course will be taught in English.
THIS COURSE IS INTENDED FOR
- Cloud budget owners
- FinOps practitioners like FinOps Analysts, Directors of Cloud Optimisation, Cloud Operations Managers and Cloud Cost Optimisation Data Analysts
- Engineering roles like Principal Systems Engineers, Cloud Architects, Service Delivery Managers, Engineering Managers, Platform Engineering
- Directors, Senior Enterprise Architects (EA) and EA Leaders
- IT Programme and Portfolio Management Leaders
- Tech leaders like Head of Infrastructure, Head of Cloud Centre of Excellence, CTO and CIO
- Finance and procurement people like Technology Procurement Managers, Financial Planning Managers and Analysts, Cloud Cost Optimisation
- Managers and Financial Business Advisors
- Finance leaders like Head of IT Finance and CFO of IT
COURSE OUTLINE
- Live (virtual) 2-day, instructor-led workshop (10 hours total)
- Lead instructor is a real-world practising FinOps leader, supported by 1 to 2 facilitators
- Interactive approach, featuring group discussions and live activities using Zoom breakout rooms. Come prepared to share your experiences and ask questions!
- Small class sizes to provide maximum interactivity and tailor discussions to participant challenges and questions
- FinOps Certified Practitioner exam
- As a bonus, participants receive videos and materials for a self-paced FinOps course they can use for future studying and to review concepts ($599 value)
THIS COURSE IS DESIGNED TO TEACH YOU
- What FinOps is for, including the 3 elements of the FinOps lifecycle: Inform, Optimise and Operate
- FinOps best practices, including KPIs and benchmarks, repeatable processes and tools to achieve measurable business outcomes
- How showbacks and chargebacks work
- Various stakeholders’ roles and responsibilities in cloud cost optimisation
AGENDA
Day 1 - FinOps concepts and basics
- Cloud cost management challenges
- Core FinOps principles
- Building a FinOps team
- FinOps capabilities
- FinOps and other methodologies (e.g., Agile, DevOps, hyperscaler Cloud Adoption Frameworks)
- Anatomy of a cloud bill
Day 2 - FinOps practice
- The FinOps lifecycle
- Inform phase - transparency, benchmarking, cost allocation, tagging, forecasting and budgeting
- Optimise phase - business case development, goals and metrics, workload management, rightsizing, reservations, discounts
- Operate phase - team alignment, automation, unit economics
TECHNICAL REQUIREMENTS
You must login with your own laptop device to class in order to participate. You are required to bring a device that meets the following requirements:
- A notebook computer with internet connection
- Administrator access to the computer (if Windows, optional)
- Chrome or Firefox (Internet Explorer will not work)
CANCELLATION & PAYMENT POLICY
All prices are net prices. VAT will be added to the price. You have the right to cancel your registration free of charge up until 15 days prior to the event. Nordcloud holds the right to cancel the event 14 days prior to the event, in which case all paid seats will be refunded. A final event confirmation message will be sent to all registrants 14 days prior to the event. No refunds will be paid after the final event confirmation message has been sent. In case the event is cancelled a cancellation message will be sent.
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