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Cloud costs you can read
Trace a monthly bill back to the three services behind it, then cut it by a third.
Rated 4.4350 reviews5,230 learners
Taught by Kofi Mensah, verified instructorPlatform engineer · streaming · Meridian Lab- Length
- 4 weeks at 3 hours a weekAt your own pace, starting today
- Credential
- Earn a course certificateIssued by Meridian Lab
- Language
- Taught in EnglishWith subtitles in 5 languages
- Tutor
- An AI tutor in every lessonIt answers from the lesson on screen
$69once, yours to keep
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About this course
You work through a streaming platform's sample bill line by line, the way a finance team reads one each month. Take it if you get asked about the cloud bill in meetings and cannot yet say where the money goes.
Skills you practice
Syllabus
4 modules
Ends on the project
12 lessons
7 to 18 min each
2 h 31 min of video
Pause to ask the tutor
2 free lessons
Watch before you pay
3 quizzes
18 questions in all
1 project
Reviewed by Kofi's team
- 1.2Tags that answer who spent it17 min
- 1.3The three services behind most bills14 min
- Quiz · 6 questions9 min
- 2.2Autoscaling that scales down8 min
- 2.3Reserved and spot capacity15 min
- Quiz · 7 questions8 min
- 3.1Storage classes and lifecycle rules17 min
- 3.2Egress, the charge nobody planned for12 min
- 3.3Logs you pay to keep10 min
- Quiz · 5 questions8 min
- 4.1Budgets and anomaly alerts9 min
- 4.2Showing each team its own costs15 min
- 4.3A monthly cost review in thirty minutes7 min
- Project · Cut a sample monthly bill by a third, with a plan a finance team can check2 hours
What the price covers
In the price
- 12 video lessons, 2 h 31 min in all
- The AI tutor beside every lesson
- 3 quizzes, graded as you answer
- A project reviewed by Kofi's team
- A course certificate when you finish
- Transcripts in 5 languages
Not in it
- Answers the tutor writes for you
- Live classes
- One-to-one mentoring
- A job guarantee
Your instructor
Kofi Mensah, verified instructor
Platform engineer · streaming
- Rating
- 4.5
- Learners
- 31.3K
- Courses
- 3
12 years in platform engineering
I run the platform team at a video streaming service.
Career highlight
We cut our cloud bill by a third in one year.
How Kofi teaches
I teach the layers under the frameworks.
Reviews, rated4.4350 reviews
Overall rating
- 5 stars, 59% of reviews
- 4 stars, 28% of reviews
- 3 stars, 7% of reviews
- 2 stars, 3% of reviews
- 1 star, 2% of reviews
Yusuf K.Junior developer
4 weeks agoFinished
The tutor asked what I thought the error meant before saying anything. Annoying on day one; by week three I was doing it unasked.
Grace W.Career changer
4 months agoFinished
I finished with a repository I could show in interviews. Two interviewers asked about the project before they asked about anything else on my résumé, and one of them had read the tests. I had spent eight years in retail management, and this was the first thing I had ever built that a stranger could download, install and run on their own machine.
Diego F.Backend developer
2 weeks agoFinished
The exercises break things on purpose. Fixing the failing run in module three taught me more than any of the lectures I have sat through.
Pete L.Senior engineer
2 months agoFinished
Too basic for me. The last module is what I came for, and it is short.
Mei C.Software engineer
1 month agoFinished
Kofi reviews the project the way a senior colleague would: short comments, each pointing at one line of your code and asking why it is there.
Nadia B.DevOps engineer
2 months agoFinished
I use something from this course every week. The notes on failure paid for it.
6 of 350 reviews
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Enough of the basics to follow along without stopping to look things up. Lesson one is free, so open that first: if its practice set feels routine to you, you are ready for the rest of the course.
Nothing expires. 4 weeks at 3 hours a week is the pace the course was planned at, and at an hour a week it takes 12 weeks. The panel above works out a finish date for whatever pace you give it.
This one is self-paced only: at 4 weeks it would be over before a cohort found its rhythm. The discussion under each lesson is where the other learners are, and the instructor reads it.
A certificate from the school that made the course, and the project the instructor's team reviewed. Each comes with a link that anyone, an employer included, can open and check in a few seconds.
Yes, within 30 days of enrolling, from your account page and with no form to fill in or reason to give. Lesson one is free with the tutor, so most people know the course suits them before they pay.
Waypoint Plus is $29 a month and opens this course along with every other. At $69 this one costs about 2 months of it, so buy it on its own if it is the only course you mean to take this year.
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