AWS Cost Management Tools (Cost Explorer) Crash Course (Udemy.com)
Learn everything about AWS Cost Explorer, Cloud Financial Management and Reserved Instance/Savings Plan
Created by: Jimmy Chim
Last updated January 2021
What you will learn
- Analyze AWS cloud cost and usage with AWS Cost Explorer
- Visualize trends with appropriate filters, grouping and chart types
- Create reports to answer specific cloud spend questions
- Build budget, forecasts and alerts for cost, usage and reservations
- Manage Reserved Instances (RI) and Savings Plan (SP)
- Solve real life problems based on demos and case studies
How it compares
Against the other 235 rated Udemy courses in AWS on CourseDuck:
- Rating4.4 out of 5higher than 36% of them
- Reviews775#125 of 236 by number of reviews
- Length2 hoursshorter than 94% of them
- Last updatedJanuary 2021earlier than 79% of them
Course Description
In this course, you will learn everything you need to know about Cost Explorer, the native AWS cost management tool.
By the end of the course, you will be able to:
- Analyze AWS cloud cost and usage with AWS Cost Explorer
- Visualize trends with appropriate filters, grouping and chart types
- Build budget, forecasts and alerts for cost, usage and reservations
- Manage Reserved Instances (RI) and Savings Plans (SP)
- Create reports to answer specific cloud spend questions
- Solve real life problems based on demos and case studies
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Why should I take this course?
Is your company using AWS? Do you need to understand how cloud cost impact your product and business?
My name is Jimmy, welcome to this AWS Cost Explorer Crash Course. I built this course based on my years of real life cloud financial management experience.
More and more companies build their products on AWS, but most people have a really hard time understanding how to analyze cloud spend.
If your company uses AWS and you are in engineering, finance, operation or product, at some point you will need to know how to see, analyze and manage your cloud cost.
Cost Explorer is a free, native AWS tool available to anyone with an AWS account, but figuring how to use it properly can be tricky.
Throughout the course, there will be additional reading materials and quizzes to augment your learning. This class will save you many hours figuring out the tool on your own.
If this sounds good to you, enroll in the course, and I look forward to seeing you there!
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Instructor Details
- 4.4 Rating
775 Reviews
Jimmy Chim
Built on 10+ years of finance, consulting and strategy experience working in Silicon Valley, my courses are focused on:
· SaaS / Software Business Strategy & Operations Management
· Data Analytics
· Microsoft Excel / Google Sheet
· Microsoft PowerPoint / Google Slides
· Cloud Financial Management
My approach is to make complex topics simple to understand, and teach through real life examples so you can apply the skills on your job.
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Reviews
By Michael Ionadi on 7/9/2026
Very good general overview of financial management and forecasting tools available in AWS. Would be nice if it were updated - or at least reviewed - more recently than 6 years ago, since AWS controls change frequently.
By Vijay on 8/2/2025
Very nicely covered about AWS Cost Management Tools, and these days majority of the businesses are getting moved to SaaS business models, and this course covers very nicely about the FinOps cloud Management of AWS very nice Thanks, Vijay
By Anonymized User on 7/30/2025
Recomiendo este curso para entender como funcionan los diferentes planes y cual es la diferencia entre cada uno, así mismo para ver la mejor forma de utilización de cada uno. Tener visibilidad de la herramienta cost explorer y budget reports.
By Anonymized User on 3/24/2024
This is great information. I did have trouble following along on getting the EC2: Running costs by Purchase Option. I had to select the Group By: Purchase Option. Somehow, I missed this after watching and rewatching the lesion a couple times.
By Anonymized User on 10/18/2023
It's good to know basics of cost explorer. Course should be updated periodically.
By Tamas Horvath on 5/11/2023
Great course, it should be made into a longer one with more details of data analysis, use cases, integration of reports with other tools. It has great potential at the moment it's an intro.
By Rhonda Tawasha on 7/15/2022
The quality of videos is pretty poor; zooming in and making his presentation readable would have helped a lot. Zooming into the screen on my end doesn't even help!! I really advise to redo all the video lectures.
By Monica Diaz on 6/27/2022
Great course on Cost Management: brief and straight to the point. Note that some of the aws screens referred in this material are now (June 2022) outdated. Yet, the core information remains VERY useful, well explained and delivered in easy to follow short-lectures. I totally recommend it for Ops and Finance people as introduction training regarding aws cost.
By Bryce Nilsson on 1/25/2022
I'd love to understand what some of the different services mean. From someone with a non-technical background, i dont know what EC2, Savings Plans, etc mean. Would be great to briefly explain this throughout this course. If there is a different course that helps teach these things, i'd love to take it!
By Nishanth on 1/23/2022
This was an excellent walk-through of AWS services and cost management. It can be very daunting for new ppl just starting to learn the AWS universe but you made it look simple. Thank you!
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