FinOps Foundation Official Training
FinOps Certified Practitioner Training Program
Build the essential FinOps knowledge and confidence to prepare for the FinOps Certified Practitioner credential from the FinOps Foundation.
2 days, 10 hours
English
Kuala Lumpur
Courseware + exam voucher included
FinOps Foundation Certified Training Provider
Delivered by Alphaus as an accredited FinOps Foundation training provider, led by a certified instructor.
Course fee
Per participant
RM4,300
Includes official courseware and the FOCP exam voucher.
Duration
2 days (5 hours each, 10 hours total)
Language
English
Location
Kuala Lumpur
Format
Instructor-led, in-person
Upcoming dates are shared with registered participants.
Why FinOps now
Cloud spend keeps climbing. Management practices have not kept pace.
AI workloads and multi-cloud adoption make cloud spend larger and harder to predict. The decisions that create it happen in engineering, and finance often sees the cost only once it is committed.
Cloud spend keeps growing
AI workloads and multi-cloud adoption widen the swing in usage and cost, making budgets hard to hold.
Cost management runs late
Spend is understood only after it is committed, so problems surface and get fixed too slowly.
No shared language
Engineering, finance, and business lack a common basis for discussing cost against value consistently.
The FinOps operating model
From cost reduction to value maximisation
FinOps is less about spending less than about maximising the value of cloud investment. It makes spend visible so teams decide together what to cut and what to fund.
Who this course is for
Built for the practitioners and leaders who own or influence cloud spend.
Cloud & platform teams
Engineers building cost visibility and allocation into daily operations.
Finance & FP&A
Professionals who need to understand how cloud spend behaves and reflect it in planning.
Engineering managers
Leaders embedding cost-aware design decisions in their teams.
CCoE & transformation
Teams standing up a FinOps practice and developing internal champions.
No prior formal FinOps training is assumed. General familiarity with cloud services helps.
What you will gain
What participants take back to their teams
01
A shared language across functions
You will be able to discuss cloud cost with engineering, finance, and business from the same assumptions and terminology.
02
A view of the whole framework
You will understand the elements that make up the FinOps Framework (phases, domains, and capabilities) and how they fit together.
03
The standard steps to get started
You will understand the conventional sequence for introducing and sustaining FinOps inside an organisation.
04
A path to certification
After the course you sit the exam online; passing earns the FinOps Certified Practitioner credential from the FinOps Foundation.
What participants say
The training is very good. Trainer is excellence with vast experience to explain the FinOps Framework with practical example ! Highly recommended for others to join
Khamisa
Vice President, Transformation and Excellence, Bank Simpanan Nasional
This training session was an eye-opening and it helped me to understand what FinOps really is. I leaned the importance of maximising value in our work.
Redza Nadzri
AI Model Engineer, Telekom Malaysia
The FinOps training has provided me with a better insight and understanding of how FinOps helps organizations in optimizing cost and usage
Tengku Mubiin
CEO, investment holding company
Finops are not simply trying to cut cost. We are trying to optimize technology usages so that we pay for the resources we actually need and use, while still delivering the required business value.
Nasrul Shah
Regional Manager, Enterprise Platform Market Leader in Asia
Clear and Practical: The trainer made complex cloud financial concepts easy to understand using realworld examples. Highly Engaging: The instructor was knowledgeable, patient, and answered specific, handson questions perfectly.
Fareez
Commercial Operations, Pharmaceutical Groups
The training was very informative and grounded. Thanks to Atasha, I learnt about technology value, and how to have a greater control over my SaaS usage. As someone who is not from the IT field, the training was very useful and informative, as I learnt a lot about the cloud and AI amongst other technologies. I recommend this course!
Samuel Loh
Programme Executive, Business NGO
One line from Atasha stuck with me: FinOps isn't about spending less, it's about making better technology decisions with a clear view of value, cost and trade offs, and that's exactly what I want to bring back to my work in cybersecurity. I'd recommend this training to anyone in cybersecurity, IT governance or public sector tech who wants their teams speaking the same language about cost.
Shahruzzani
Cyber Security Consultant, CyberSecurity Malaysia
The FinOps Certified Practitioner training enhanced my understanding of how to align technology spending with business objectives through better cost visibility, resource optimization, and cross-functional collaboration. As Group Head of Finance, I found the most valuable takeaway was how FinOps principles can support cost optimization, improve budgeting and forecasting accuracy, and strengthen financial accountability across Engineering, IT, and Finance. I believe these practices can help Rentalworks improve technology cost efficiency, optimize cash flow, and make more informed investment decisions. I would recommend this training to Finance, Engineering, and IT leaders who want to turn technology spending into measurable business value.
Jerry Yeo
Group Head of Finance at International Technology Lifecycle management company
What I learnt from FinOps is see things from different perspectives. This is relevant to most organizations as teams have different priorities and we learn to speak their "language".
Alan Yip
Business Development Lead, SaaS Company
The training was very informational. The training helped me understanding the concept of FinOps.
Syuhaida
Secretariat at a Bilateral Association
Overall good pacing and easy to understand. Activity and practical is a big part of the learning about FinOps
Jason Liew
Director, Worksy & Auris
Good session in introducing a great framework to promote team collaboration understand cloud usage and costs.
Jin
Tech Lead, Worksy & Auris
It would elevate the knowledge that previously quite grey and not knowing the real value.
Noor Fadzillah
CelcomDigi
Good experience, consise and packed with content
Azmirul Izzat
Unit Head, Cybersecurity Engineering at telco conglomerate
The learning experience
The FinOps Framework through its three practice phases
Built on the official FinOps Foundation curriculum, aligned to the current version of the framework.
Inform
Make spend visible and establish whose cost it is.
Visibility
Allocation
Forecasting
Optimize
Decide where to act once the picture is clear.
Optimization
Trade-offs
Prioritisation
Operate
Turn the practice into something the organisation sustains.
Operating model
Roles
Culture
Key topics
- The FinOps Framework and the activities in each phase
- The technology, finance, and business collaboration model
- Standing up and sustaining FinOps inside an organisation
- Developing internal FinOps champions
What’s included
- Two days of instructor-led classroom training (10 hours total)
- Official FinOps Foundation courseware (12 months access)
- FOCP exam voucher (one retake included)
- Alphaus certificate of completion (record of attendance)
The FOCP credential is issued by the FinOps Foundation on passing the exam, and its 24-month validity follows FinOps Foundation policy. The Alphaus certificate of completion records attendance and is not the FOCP credential.
Why train with Alphaus
Learn the official FinOps curriculum from an accredited provider in Malaysia
Certified Training Provider
Alphaus delivers this course as an accredited FinOps Foundation training provider.
Certified instructor
Led by FinOps Certified Training Instructors whose credentials are independently verifiable.
Official curriculum
Built on the current FinOps Framework, not a third-party interpretation.
Regional practice
Alphaus works on cloud cost management with enterprise and MSP teams across APAC.
Your instructors
Mohd Atasha Alias
Regional Director (APAC ex JP), Alphaus
- Leads Alphaus FinOps and cloud cost initiatives across APAC excluding Japan
- Works with enterprise and MSP teams on cloud cost management practice
- Credential issued by the FinOps Foundation (The Linux Foundation) and verifiable via Credly
Farhad Rostamivand
Education Principal, FinOps, Alphaus
- Brings an engineering background in SaaS, cloud architecture and real-time cost management
- Teaches FinOps hands-on across AWS, Azure and Google Cloud
- Created the FinOps Investigation Framework (FIF), a method to find cloud cost savings
Instructor assignment is confirmed ahead of each session.
Course details
Format
Instructor-led, in-person
Duration
2 days (5 hours each, 10 hours total)
Language
English
Location
Kuala Lumpur
Fee
RM4,300 per participant
Level
Foundational, no prerequisites
Venue, capacity, and upcoming dates are confirmed with registered participants. Private team sessions are available on request.
Frequently asked questions
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What happens after I enquire?
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