FinOps and AI Cost Governance Training in Cork, Ireland

This comprehensive training program equips professionals with the principles and practices of FinOps combined with AI cost governance. Participants will learn to manage cloud financial operations, implement cost optimization strategies, govern AI workloads, and drive financial accountability across engineering and finance teams. The course blends theory with real-world scenarios to build practical expertise in cloud cost management and AI resource governance.

Foundations of FinOps and AI Cost Governance

• Defining FinOps and its role in cloud financial management
• Core principles: collaboration, data-driven decisions, continuous optimization
• Overview of AI cost drivers: compute, storage, data egress, model training
• Introducing the FinOps lifecycle: inform, optimize, operate

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Cloud Cost Visibility and Allocation

• Setting up cost and usage reports across AWS, Azure, and GCP
• Designing effective tagging and resource labeling strategies
• Implementing cost allocation hierarchies and chargeback/showback models
• Leveraging native cloud cost management consoles

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AI Workload Cost Analysis and Tracking

• Identifying cost components for AI/ML pipelines
• Monitoring GPU/TPU usage and spot instance utilization
• Tracking data storage and transfer costs for AI datasets
• Creating cost dashboards for AI project stakeholders

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Budgeting, Forecasting, and Anomaly Detection

• Building budgets and cost thresholds for cloud services
• Implementing anomaly detection using cloud-native alerts
• Forecasting future cloud spend with trend analysis
• Integrating cost data into enterprise financial planning

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Cost Optimization Strategies for Compute and Storage

• Rightsizing instances and leveraging reserved capacity
• Using spot instances and preemptible VMs for non-critical workloads
• Optimizing storage tiers and lifecycle policies
• Reducing data transfer and egress costs

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Governance and Automation for AI Resources

• Defining policies for AI resource provisioning and decommissioning
• Automating cost controls with Infrastructure as Code (IaC)
• Implementing governance guardrails for AI model training
• Monitoring and enforcing cost tags and compliance rules

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FinOps Culture and Organizational Change

• Building cross-functional FinOps teams
• Establishing cost accountability and ownership models
• Communicating financial metrics to engineering and leadership
• Creating continuous improvement cycles for cost governance

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Advanced Topics and Emerging Trends

• Managing multi-cloud and hybrid cloud costs
• Cost governance for serverless and containerized workloads
• AI cost optimization for large language models and generative AI
• Exploring FinOps tooling ecosystems and open-source solutions

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