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Cloud Cost Management (FinOps) in Excel

Break down the cloud bill, track unit costs, find the commitment break-even, rightsize, tier storage, allocate shared costs, forecast to month end and catch cost spikes, on live auto-graded spreadsheets.

8 lessons 8 labs 1.9 h Certificate

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What you will be able to do

Each lab ends with a concrete result that you build yourself and the checker confirms, cell by cell.

  • Break Quillstack's September cloud bill down by service and by team with SUMIF and SUMIFS, and show each service's share of the total.
  • Show that Quillstack's cloud bill grows while its cost per customer and per 1,000 requests falls: the unit metrics that tell growth from waste.
  • Find the utilisation at which a 1-year commitment beats on-demand prices for eight of Quillstack's workloads, decide which to commit and size the annual saving.
  • Use the p95 CPU utilisation of ten Quillstack instances to find the right size with an approximate lookup and total the monthly saving.
  • Price eight of Quillstack's data sets in three storage tiers, including the cost of reading the data back, and pick the cheapest tier for each.
  • Measure how much of Quillstack's October spend carries a team tag, total each team's direct cost and allocate the shared platform costs in proportion.
  • On 19 October you forecast each Quillstack team's cloud spend to the end of the month from the run rate, compare it with the budget and flag the teams heading for an overrun.
  • Compare each day of Quillstack's September cloud cost with the average of the 7 days before it, flag the spikes and measure the extra spend they caused.

About this course

Cloud bills grow quietly until someone asks who is spending what. This course teaches you to answer that and to cut waste. You break the monthly bill down by service and team, then express it as unit costs per customer and per thousand requests. Pricing labs find the break-even point between on-demand and commitment plans. You rightsize instances from CPU utilisation, choose between hot, cool and archive storage, and measure tagging coverage before showing back and charging back shared costs. Forecast labs compare budget with actual and project the run rate to month end, and the final lab detects cost anomalies against a seven-day average. For engineers, FinOps practitioners and finance teams.

Curriculum

Course content

8 lessons · 8 labs · 1.9 h · final exam

  1. Monthly Cloud Bill: Breakdown by Service & TeamLab13 min4 checked tasks
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  2. Unit Economics: Cost per Customer & per 1,000 RequestsLab13 min5 checked tasks
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  3. On-Demand vs Commitment Pricing: The Break-Even PointLab15 min4 checked tasks
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  4. Rightsizing: From CPU Utilisation to the Right Instance SizeLab15 min4 checked tasks
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  5. Storage Tiering: Hot, Cool or Archive?Lab15 min4 checked tasks
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  6. Tagging Coverage, Showback & Chargeback of Shared CostsLab16 min4 checked tasks
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  7. Budget vs Actual & Run-Rate Forecast to Month EndLab14 min4 checked tasks
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  8. Cost Anomaly Detection: Daily Cost vs the 7-Day AverageLab15 min5 checked tasks
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  9. Final exam12 questions, 75% to pass, unlimited retries.

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Do I need Excel or other software?

No. The labs run in a spreadsheet inside your browser on a laptop, tablet or phone. Function names and syntax follow Excel.

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