Present the case for investment in cloud cost management in terms that a finance function will accept.
Cloud Cost Management and Technology Spend Optimisation
Practical training in cloud cost management, grounded in real cases and applied to your own operation.
📍 Abu Dhabi🗓️ 5 training days📚 4 modules🎓 Accredited certificate
5intensive training days
4scientific modules
8training sessions
32detailed points
Course Overview
The constraint on cloud cost management is rarely the model or the platform — it is the data and the operating discipline behind it. Vendors sell this aspect of digital and data-driven work as a product; it behaves in practice as a change programme. What blocks progress on the wider digital and data-driven work agenda is usually unclear ownership rather than unclear intent. It treats cloud cost management as an operating discipline and equips participants to run it as one. Comparative studies of the digital and data-driven work capability across sectors find the same handful of failure points recurring. Each session closes with a decision the participant must justify about this area of digital and data-driven work in their own setting. They leave able to brief senior management on cloud cost management in terms that support a decision. It is designed for mixed groups, so that the digital and data-driven work discipline is examined from more than one functional angle. The programme ends where implementation begins, with this part of digital and data-driven work broken into steps someone can start on Monday.
Expected Learning Outcomes
Set retention, lineage and deletion rules for the data flowing through cloud cost management.
Build a concise delivery roadmap for cloud cost management that colleagues can follow without further explanation.
Build a security and access model for cloud cost management appropriate to the sensitivity of the data involved.
Define the scope and boundaries of cloud cost management so that responsibility for it is unambiguous.
Agree the retirement plan for the legacy process cloud cost management replaces.
Define escalation and fallback for cloud cost management when the automated path fails.
Who Should Attend
Business analysts translating requirements for cloud cost management.
Information security officers reviewing the exposure created by cloud cost management.
Risk and compliance staff assessing the controls around cloud cost management.
Programme managers coordinating delivery of cloud cost management across teams.
Managers in small and medium organisations who own cloud cost management alongside other duties.
Experienced practitioners formalising an approach to cloud cost management that has grown up informally.
Course Modules
Cloud cost management: from pilot to production
2 sessions · 8 pointsSession 1The paperwork for cloud cost management that is actually needed
- Prepare the response for the most likely failure in cloud cost management.
- Agree who is on call for cloud cost management outside working hours.
- Specify the fallback path when cloud cost management is unavailable.
- Build the competence framework that supports cloud cost management.
Session 2Choosing a supplier for cloud cost management without being captured
- Test cloud cost management against edge cases drawn from real historical records.
- Reduce the variation in how cloud cost management is carried out between teams.
- Build the internal briefing that explains cloud cost management to those affected.
- Close out actions on cloud cost management rather than leaving them open indefinitely.
Cloud cost management: people, skills and the change that follows
2 sessions · 8 pointsSession 1Reading the true cost of running cloud cost management
- Verify that cloud cost management still performs when input volume doubles unexpectedly.
- Plan how cloud cost management is versioned and how a bad release is rolled back.
- Arrange the handover of cloud cost management so capability survives staff changes.
- Estimate compute and licensing cost for cloud cost management at expected and at peak load.
Session 2What breaks first when cloud cost management meets real volume
- Check that records of cloud cost management answer the questions likely to be asked.
- List the data sources cloud cost management consumes and confirm each has a named owner.
- Test the procedure for cloud cost management against a realistic scenario.
- Identify the skills the team lacks to operate cloud cost management independently.
Cloud cost management: measuring benefit and retiring what it replaces
2 sessions · 8 pointsSession 1Getting other functions to support cloud cost management
- Agree the smallest change to cloud cost management that would be visibly useful.
- Classify the data in cloud cost management and apply access controls that match the classification.
- Assign responsibility for keeping documentation of cloud cost management current.
- Confirm the retention and deletion rules applied to data inside cloud cost management.
Session 2Reading the current state of cloud cost management honestly
- Record the reasoning behind each architectural choice in cloud cost management.
- Agree the indicators that will show whether cloud cost management is improving.
- Define the exit route from the supplier supporting cloud cost management.
- Draft the minimum viable delivery roadmap for cloud cost management.
Cloud cost management: governance, ethics and explainability
2 sessions · 8 pointsSession 1Making cloud cost management secure without making it unusable
- Write down the assumptions underpinning the approach to cloud cost management.
- Decide which legacy process cloud cost management retires, and set the date.
- Compare the cost of cloud cost management with the cost of its absence.
- Establish who is informed, consulted and accountable in cloud cost management.
Session 2Proving cloud cost management paid for itself
- Prepare the summary of cloud cost management that senior management will read.
- Design the pilot for cloud cost management so that a negative result is still useful.
- Assess the regulatory obligations cloud cost management triggers in each jurisdiction.
- Identify every system cloud cost management must read from or write to.
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Silver Package
At least 3 people
USD1,250
- Workshop or Program Participation
- Airport Transfers
- Customized Badge
- Expert Mentorship (Private Sessions)
- Supervision & Secretarial Services
- Accredited Certificate of Participation
- Complete Training Kit
- Coffee Break
- Closing Ceremony
Gold Package
At least 3 people
USD1,850
- 5-night stay in a 5-star hotel
- Workshop or Program Participation
- Airport Transfers
- Customized Badge
- Expert Mentorship (Private Sessions)
- Supervision & Secretarial Services
- Accredited Certificate of Participation
- Complete Training Kit
- Coffee Break
- Closing Ceremony
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