AWS Billing and Cost Management
Discover how AWS Billing and Cost Management helps you analyse spending, control costs, and optimise cloud budgets.
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AWS Billing and Cost Management
Discover smarter ways to manage AWS cloud costs
Explore AWS Billing and Cost Management by examining AWS Cost Explorer, AWS Cost and Usage Reports, AWS Budgets, and AWS Cost Anomaly Detection to understand how these tools help analyse spending, monitor usage, and optimise cloud costs.
Apply cost management strategies across AWS
Discover how reporting, budgeting, cost analysis, and monitoring tools support effective financial control, improve spending visibility, and enable long-term cloud cost optimisation across AWS environments.
You’ll access learning content and practical activities online through Amazon Web Services (AWS), alongside your FutureLearn course experience, giving you direct access to AWS learning as you progress.
Syllabus
Week 1
AWS Billing and Cost Management
AWS Billing and Cost Management
In this activity, you will learn how AWS Billing tools - such as Cost Explorer, Cost and Usage Reports, AWS Budgets, and Cost Anomaly Detection - help analyze spending, prevent overspend, and send alerts via Amazon SNS.
When would you like to start?
Start straight away and join a global classroom of learners. If the course hasn’t started yet you’ll see the future date listed below.
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Learning on this course
On every step of the course you can meet other learners, share your ideas and join in with active discussions in the comments.
What will you achieve?
By the end of the course, you‘ll be able to...
- Explain the purpose and benefits of using AWS Billing and Cost Management
- Recognize AWS Cost Explorer and the AWS Cost and Usage Reports as tools to examine cloud spending
- Recognize AWS Budgets and AWS Cost Anomaly Detection as tools to help avoid accidental overspend
Who is the course for?
This course is ideal for anyone who wants to understand the fundamentals of AWS Billing and Cost Management and explore the tools available to analyse, monitor, and optimise cloud spending.
Who developed the course?
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
AWS is the world’s most comprehensive cloud, enabling organizations to accelerate innovation, reduce costs, and scale more efficiently.
What's included?
Amazon Web Services (AWS) are offering everyone who joins this course a free digital upgrade, so that you can experience the full benefits of studying online for free. This means that you get:
Learning on FutureLearn
Your learning, your rules
- Courses are split into weeks, activities, and steps to help you keep track of your learning
- Learn through a mix of bite-sized videos, long- and short-form articles, audio, and practical activities
- Stay motivated by using the Progress page to keep track of your step completion and assessment scores
Join a global classroom
- Experience the power of social learning, and get inspired by an international network of learners
- Share ideas with your peers and course educators on every step of the course
- Join the conversation by reading, @ing, liking, bookmarking, and replying to comments from others
Map your progress
- As you work through the course, use notifications and the Progress page to guide your learning
- Whenever you’re ready, mark each step as complete, you’re in control
- Complete 90% of course steps and all of the assessments to earn your certificate
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