Automate Cloud Costs & Governance

Overview

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: • Analyze cloud usage and billing reports to identify under-utilized resources • Evaluate the effectiveness of tagging and policy enforcement for resource governance • 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.

Syllabus

Module 1: Cloud Usage Analysis Foundation

Learners will master systematic cloud cost analysis techniques by examining real AWS billing data to uncover hidden inefficiencies and develop data-driven optimization strategies.

Module 2: Policy Effectiveness Evaluation

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.

Module 3: Automation Script Creation

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.