The cloud bill, decoded
Pull last month's invoice from AWS, GCP, or Azure and explain every dollar on it.
5 lessons. 1 quiz.
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What's actually in a cloud bill
By the end of this lesson, you will be able to identify the four line-item categories on any AWS, GCP, or Azure invoice and trace any dollar back to the resource and the usage event that caused it.
CUR, Cost Explorer, Cost Management, BigQuery: pick one
By the end of this lesson, you will be able to choose the right billing data source on AWS, GCP, or Azure for a given question, and explain when one source is wrong for the job.
Granularity vs. timeliness: the trade-off you didn't choose
By the end of this lesson, you will be able to explain why every cloud bill lags real time, usually by a day or more, and pick the right granularity band for any cost question.
Tags, labels, and the cost-attribution problem
By the end of this lesson, you will be able to trace any dollar of cloud spend back to a team using tags, and identify the four tags every cloud estate needs as the minimum viable tag set.
The ten cost mistakes that show up on every bill
By the end of this lesson, you will be able to spot the ten most common cost mistakes in any cloud estate, and estimate the savings each one represents.
Module quiz.
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