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Mastering FinOps: Tagging & Naming Conventions - Govern Your Cloud Resources
Learn how to create tagging & naming conventions for your AWS, GCP & Azure. Get control of your company Cloud resources and reduce your bill
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Course overview
Allocate your Cloud Costs with Company Tagging Policies and Naming Conventions
Are you throwing money away on cloud resources?
Do you struggle to understand where your cloud spending is going?
Welcome to the Mastering FinOps: Naming Conventions and Tagging Course.
Here, you’ll discover the secrets to efficient cloud cost allocation and resource management in AWS, GCP & Azure.
Without a solid tagging FinOps strategy, you’re likely facing:
· Lack of standardization: Making it impossible to classify and manage your cloud resources effectively.
· Inconsistent naming: Different teams using different names for the same resources, leading to chaos.
· Human error: Increased mistakes in resource naming, causing misallocation and wasted spend.
· Hidden costs: Difficulty in tracking and allocating costs to specific business units or projects.
· Missed opportunities: Inability to leverage automation and policies for cost optimization.
If that's your case, please continue reading.
Imagine a world where you can effortlessly:
· Optimize resource utilization
· Track every dollar spent in the cloud
· Enforce consistent naming and tagging across your entire organization.
In this course, you’ll learn the proven FinOps strategies and hands-on techniques to achieve just that.
· Gain a competitive edge with in-demand FinOps skills.
· Automate your FinOps processes for maximum efficiency with IaC.
· Eliminate errors with standardized naming conventions and tagging.
· Become a FinOps expert and lead your organization to cloud excellence.
· Identify cost efficiency opportunities by having tools in place to detect them.
Enroll in the Mastering FinOps Naming and Tagging Course today and take control of your cloud spending.
Don’t let another dollar go to waste in the cloud!
Limited spots available – sign up now!
Who is this course for
01
FinOps struggling with Allocation
If you have problems allocating costs in your cloud, this program will help you do so via tagging.
02
Cloud Architects who need to policies to enforce tagging across organization
We'll provide policies that are already in use by companies.
03
Managers ready to understand the implications of tagging in FinOps.
To understand the impact and how to enforce tagging, this is for you.
What you’ll get out of this course
Understand how Naming Conventions Work & Their Role in FinOps
Using a naming convention for our cloud resources allows us to:
- Infer additional information about the resource by its name
- Simplify cloud resources management and inventory
- Ensure consistency and standardization
Learn how Tagging can help you allocate costs in Cloud
Comprehend the benefits of tagging within FinOps:
- Allows us to filter, classify and group cloud resources based on relevant terms
- Enables cost visibility and cost allocation
- Simplifies operations and cloud resources maintenance
- Automation processes
Automate Tagging for your Cloud environment with Done-for-You policies using Infrastructure as Code (IaC)
Leveraging IaC to define your tagging and naming convention policies allows us to control our infrastructure with all the benefits of code, such as:
- Versioning
- Deployment automation consistency,
- Standardization,
- Work item/bug tracking.
- And many more ...
Enforce Tagging & Naming Convention Policies in your Company
Once we have defined a tagging policy, we need to oversee its adoption.
We need to have tools in place to both:
- Audit resources compliance to our tagging strategy
- Prevent creation of resources that are not compliant to our tagging strategy
Monitoring Tagging & Naming Convention Tools
We'll help you understand all the tools available to create and supervise your tags, along with an example on how to create dashboards.
You'll be able to monitor your tagging across
- AWS
- GCP
- Azure
- Kubernetes
No provider escapes our policies.
What’s included
Live sessions
Learn directly from Alfonso San Miguel Sanchez in a real-time, interactive format.
Lifetime access
Go back to course content and recordings whenever you need to.
Community of peers
Stay accountable and share insights with like-minded professionals.
Certificate of completion
Share your new skills with your employer or on LinkedIn.
Maven Guarantee
This course is backed by the Maven Guarantee. Students are eligible for a full refund up until the halfway point of the course.
What students are saying
Control your Resources and Enforce Compliance across your Organization
Active hands-on learning
This course builds on live workshops and hands-on projects
Interactive and project-based
You’ll be interacting with other learners through breakout rooms, community channels and during Q&A
From Zero to Hero
You don't need tagging knowledge or code knowledge to begin. We'll provide everything and make you a Hero of Tagging
Course schedule
4-6 hours per week
Tuesdays & Thursdays: Live Masterclass
6:00PM - 7:30PM CET
Live content with insights and information from us. All classes will be recorded, but we encourage you to assist live and ask doubts.
Fridays: Q&A Sessions
3:00 PM - 4:00 PM CET
Every week we have some time to discuss doubts, questions and issues you might have with the current week's module. A nice place to chat and comment with the rest of the class.
Weekly projects
2 hours per week
Each module contains an exercise you need to submit by next class. This hands on experience will make you understand the concepts and be of immediate use at work.
Meet your instructors
Alfonso San Miguel Sanchez
Alfonso San Miguel Sanchez
Lead Cloud Architect at b2impact & Co-author of Efficient Cloud Finops book
Automation, DevOps and Infra-as-Code enthusiast with a broad experience on Microsoft solutions, both on-premises and on Azure, which I recently supplemented with AWS experience on my latest projects.
I always felt at home being close to development teams, overcoming the ‘legacy’ idea of an infrastructure architect.
On the latest stage of my experience, I have been mainly focused on Cloud Optimization and Cloud Governance, especially around FinOps/Cost Optimization
Tagging Policies made for you using Infrastructure as Code
Leverage Terraform code to handle your tagging
Get our Naming Convention Generator Tool
Ready to use in your Company
Leverage our naming generator to apply the naming conventions you learn in the course
Made with Professional level Knowledge
Battle tested tool used in our company to identify resources in an easy, trackable way.
Easy to use
Made for everyone to use, with a simple interface that can be shared with your colleagues.
Learning is better with cohorts
Active hands-on learning
This course builds on live workshops and hands-on projects
Interactive and project-based
You’ll be interacting with other learners through breakout rooms and project teams
Learn with a cohort of peers
Join a community of like-minded FinOps professionals who want to learn and grow alongside you