FinOps Training
The FinOps Desk
Where you professionalize in FinOps — certification, cloud cost management, and the FOCUS standard, taught by a practitioner.
Courses.
8 of 8 live today — sign in with Google to buy, and your course unlocks automatically on your account.
FinOps Certified Practitioner
fundamentalsThe full 9-week FinOps foundations course — cost allocation, forecasting, optimization, and governance.
FinOps Certified AI Value
intermediateApplying FinOps discipline to AI/ML spend -- token economics, GPU commitment ROI, and unit economics.
Technology Value
intermediateFinOps beyond public cloud — Scopes and Technology Categories (SaaS, data center, data cloud platforms) applied to real business value.
FinOps Certified Professional
advancedA 10-week, post-FOCP program for scaling a FinOps practice across multiple clouds and business units — governance at scale, cross-functional influence, and commitment strategy.
FinOps Certified Engineer
fundamentalsA hands-on FinOps course for backend, platform, and DevOps/SRE engineers — tagging enforcement, cost-aware architecture, rightsizing automation, Kubernetes cost allocation, and CI/CD cost gates.
Introduction to FOCUS
fundamentalsA 4-week technical deep dive into FOCUS, the FinOps Foundation’s open billing-data specification, grounded in the current v1.4 spec.
FinOps Certified FOCUS Analyst
intermediateApplied FOCUS data analysis for FinOps practitioners: cross-cloud comparisons, commitment amortization, anomaly detection, and unit economics.
FinOps Trained Containers
intermediateAn applied, 5-week course in Kubernetes and container cost allocation — namespace showback/chargeback, requests vs. limits vs. usage, bin-packing, and idle capacity.
Suggested Learning Path.
The 8 courses aren’t meant to be taken in catalog order — here’s how they actually build on each other, based on what each course’s own prerequisites assume.
FinOps Certified Practitioner
The foundation every other course assumes — cost allocation, forecasting, optimization, and governance.
AI Value, Technology Value, or FOCUS
Take these in any order — each only assumes Practitioner-level FinOps knowledge, not each other.
FOCUS Analyst
Builds directly on Introduction to FOCUS — take that one first if data analysis is your focus.
Engineer & Trained Containers
For engineers who already know Terraform or Kubernetes — independent of the FinOps track above, not a sequel to it.
FinOps Certified Professional
The most advanced course — built for after Practitioner, ideally alongside the specializations.
All-Access Bundle
Every course, unlocked at once — $300 instead of $712 buying all 8 individually.
Free: Cloud Bill Reading Cheat Sheet
The 6 FinOps Principles, the 5 stakeholder personas, and the billing-model glossary from Week 1 — one page, no account needed.
What This Is.
The FinOps Desk is where you professionalize in FinOps — not the vendor-neutral crash-course version, but cloud cost management the way it actually gets practiced inside a company. Every course is built around real bills, real trade-offs, and the FinOps Foundation’s own FOCP curriculum and FOCUS billing standard, with one thing most programs don’t cover yet: a clear-eyed look at which of those decisions are already shifting from a person to an agent, and which ones still need a human call.
The catalog covers all 8 courses across the FinOps discipline, live today — FinOps Certified Practitioner’s full 9 weeks, plus the AI Value, Technology Value, FOCUS, Engineer, Professional, and Container specializations that build on it.
Frequently Asked.
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Your Instructor.
Adam Morad
Cloud FinOps & Data Engineering. Manages $10M+ in annual multi-cloud spend, with a track record of cutting cloud costs 20–30% through rightsizing and commitment management.
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Anodot
Wiv.ai
DoiT
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