FinOps Course: Cloud Cost Management for IT [EN]

This course includes the use of artificial intelligence.

Every month, your company receives a cloud bill. And every month, someone asks the same question: “Why is it so expensive?” The answer is usually missing. Or it sounds like “it’s complicated.” Costs grow faster than revenue, no one understands which team consumes the most, and dev/test environments run 24/7—even when no one uses them at night.

This is not a cloud problem. This is the absence of FinOps.

FinOps: Cloud Cost Management in IT is a course of 6 sessions by Mike, who has trained over 150,000 professionals in 185 countries and built management systems in companies from Preply to Wargaming. This is not a review of cloud tools and not a theoretical finance course. It’s a practical program that teaches you to manage cloud costs as a business process—with transparency, accountability, and measurable results.

FinOps is one of the fastest-growing professions in IT. Companies spending $50K+ per month in the cloud can no longer afford to operate without a FinOps function. Those spending $500K+ lose hundreds of thousands of dollars annually simply due to the lack of a system.

What makes this course different: FinOps is treated as a management system at the intersection of finance, technology, and product. You’ll get ready-to-use templates, checklists, and models that you can apply the very next day.

Session 1 defines FinOps as a profession: what it is, how it differs from DevOps and Finance, FinOps roles, the Crawl → Walk → Run maturity model, and the KPIs a FinOps specialist actually owns.

Session 2 teaches you to read cloud bills: typical cost structures of AWS, Azure, and GCP, where the biggest leaks are, shared costs, hidden expenses, and the basics of cost tracking via tags and cost centers.

Session 3 dives into cost allocation: chargeback vs showback, models for distributing costs across products and teams, tagging mistakes, and how not to turn FinOps into a “financial police.”

Session 4 is pure optimization: rightsizing, autoscaling, idle resources, storage optimization, reserved instances, and savings plans. Dev/Test environments as the main source of overspending. A 30–60 day quick wins checklist.

Session 5 focuses on analytics: Cost vs Usage vs Value metrics, cloud unit economics, dashboards for CTO and CFO, and common mistakes—vanity metrics and reports for the sake of reporting.

Session 6 brings everything together: how to launch FinOps from scratch, operating rhythms, communication with Dev and Finance without conflicts, career paths, and a 90-day implementation roadmap.

Companies without FinOps pay for the cloud “whatever it ends up being.”

Companies with FinOps pay “what is needed” — and know exactly why.

The difference is not the budget size. It’s the presence of a system.

Don’t wait until the cloud bill becomes a board-level problem.

Become the specialist who takes cloud finances under control.

Enroll now and start managing cloud costs systematically today.

Lifetime access to all materials and future updates.

Active instructor support in Q&A.

Certificate of Completion (Udemy).

Practical skills for work and career.

Real business cases and projects.

Access to the student community.

A $1000 program available at a significant discount thanks to the platform.