Automate Cloud Costs & Governance
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Automate Cloud Costs & Governance
This course is part of AI Systems Reliability & Security Specialization
Instructor: Hurix Digital
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Data-driven cloud cost analysis uncovers waste patterns missed by manual checks, enabling targeted optimization and ROI.
Effective governance demands continuous evaluation and updates, as policies that worked before may fail as systems scale.
Automation shifts governance from reactive fixes to proactive prevention, enabling self-healing, compliant infrastructure.
Sustainable cloud operations treat governance policies as living codeβversioned, tested, and continuously refined.
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There are 3 modules in this course
Transform your cloud operations from reactive to proactive with automated cost optimization and governance mastery. This course empowers ML and AI professionals to take control of escalating cloud expenses while ensuring bulletproof compliance across complex infrastructure environments.
This Short Course was created to help Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence professionals accomplish systematic cloud cost control and automated governance enforcement. By completing this course, you'll be able to identify hidden cost drains through advanced usage analytics, evaluate whether your current governance policies actually work, and build intelligent automation that prevents violations before they happen - skills you can apply immediately to slash your cloud bills and strengthen compliance posture. By the end of this course, you will be able to: β’ Analyze cloud usage and billing reports to identify under-utilized resources β’ Evaluate the effectiveness of tagging and policy enforcement for resource governance β’ Create automation scripts to enforce cost, security, and compliance policies This course is unique because it combines real-world enterprise scenarios with hands-on automation development, teaching you to build the same cost optimization and governance systems used by leading tech companies. To be successful in this course, you should have a background in cloud infrastructure management, basic scripting knowledge, and familiarity with Infrastructure as Code principles.
Learners will master systematic cloud cost analysis techniques by examining real AWS billing data to uncover hidden inefficiencies and develop data-driven optimization strategies.
What's included
3 videos2 readings2 assignments
3 videosβ’Total 13 minutes
- The Hidden Cost Crisis: Cloud Bills Spiral Out of Controlβ’3 minutes
- Cloud Usage Analytics: Essential Concepts and Metricsβ’6 minutes
- Step-by-Step AWS Billing Analysis: From Dashboard to Insightsβ’4 minutes
2 readingsβ’Total 20 minutes
- AWS Billing Dashboard Deep Dive: Interpreting Usage Data for Optimizationβ’10 minutes
- Advanced Usage Analytics: Identifying Rightsizing and Termination Opportunitiesβ’10 minutes
2 assignmentsβ’Total 23 minutes
- AWS Billing Analysis Challenge: Uncover Hidden Cost Optimization Opportunitiesβ’15 minutes
- Cloud Usage Analysis Knowledge Checkβ’8 minutes
Learners will systematically assess governance frameworks by analyzing tagging compliance reports, measuring policy enforcement effectiveness, and identifying gaps that compromise cost control and security compliance.
What's included
3 videos1 reading2 assignments
3 videosβ’Total 17 minutes
- When Governance Fails: The Hidden Cost of Policy Gapsβ’5 minutes
- Governance Metrics That Matter: Measuring Policy Successβ’8 minutes
- AWS Config Rules Analysis: Systematic Compliance Evaluationβ’4 minutes
1 readingβ’Total 10 minutes
- Governance Policy Assessment Framework: Measuring What Mattersβ’10 minutes
2 assignmentsβ’Total 21 minutes
- Enterprise Governance Assessment: Policy Effectiveness Deep Diveβ’18 minutes
- Governance Policy Effectiveness Knowledge Checkβ’3 minutes
Learners will develop Infrastructure as Code solutions using Terraform and Sentinel to automate policy enforcement, transforming reactive governance into proactive prevention systems that maintain compliance without manual intervention.
What's included
3 videos1 reading3 assignments
3 videosβ’Total 14 minutes
- From Reactive to Proactive: The Automation Transformationβ’3 minutes
- Infrastructure as Code Governance: Terraform and Sentinel Fundamentalsβ’9 minutes
- Building Governance Automation: Terraform and Sentinel Implementationβ’2 minutes
1 readingβ’Total 10 minutes
- Policy-as-Code Implementation: Building Automated Governance Systemsβ’10 minutes
3 assignmentsβ’Total 38 minutes
- End-to-End Governance Automation: Build Production-Ready Policy Enforcementβ’20 minutes
- Automation Script Development Knowledge Checkβ’3 minutes
- Cloud Cost & Governance Automation Mastery Assessmentβ’15 minutes
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