Training & Enablement
This guide provides an overview of self-study resources for feature enablement and Cloudaware training options.
Self-Study Resources
Getting Started
- Quick Start Guides for Cloudaware Administrators, Cloud Engineers, Security & Compliance teams, FinOps, Developers & DevOps
- Architecture and Platform Overview
Role-Based Paths
For role-based learning paths and materials, see:
- Administrators Quick Start, also including:
- Identity & Access Management
- RBAC & Access Controls
- Baseline Security Controls
- Cloud & Service Integrations
- Cloud Engineers Quick Start, also including:
- Cloud Account Onboarding
- Tagging Governance
- Tag Analyzer
- Discovery & Scheduling
- Security & Compliance Analysts Quick Start, also including:
- Cloud FinOps Quick Start:
- Cost Management
- Ingestion
- Allocation
- Budgets & Forecasting
- Anomaly Detection
- Optimization
- Developers & DevOps Quick Start, also including:
- Cloudaware APIs
- CLI Tooling
- Pipelines & Approvals
- Webhooks & Events
Deep Dives
Cloudaware Academy
Cloudaware Academy is add-on training provided by Cloudaware.
Cloudaware Basics
This training provides broad knowledge about the Cloudaware CMDB and covers basic Navigation, Reporting, and user management capabilities. Training duration: 4 hours.
The training includes:
- General platform UI workshop.
- Navigation.
- Different types of searches and how to use them
- Building and editing list views
- User Management.
- Profiles setup
- Sharing rules
- Reports.
- Picking a report type and using meaningful fields
- Export/scheduling
Cloudaware Advanced
This training provides advanced knowledge about the Cloudaware CMDB and covers advanced platform Reporting, Data Management, and Automation capabilities. Training duration: 4 hours.
The training includes:
- Reports.
- Picking a report type and using meaningful fields
- Export/scheduling
- Automation.
- Flows
- Creation and testing of email templates
- Data Management.
- Adding custom objects and relationships
- Data import and export
- Advanced Analytics.
- Dataflows and recipes
- Building BI analytics dashboards
- Necessary user permissions
Cloudaware for Asset Management Teams
This training provides expanded knowledge for Asset Management team members on leveraging Cloudaware CMDB best practices. Training duration: 4 hours.
The training includes:
- Auto-discovery for cloud accounts.
- AWS Organizations
- Azure Active Directory/Entra ID
- Google Organizations
- Tag Management best practices.
- Tag Analyzer
- CaTags
- Multi-account and multi-regional tagging
- Cloudaware Applications.
- Effective asset attachment
- Application discovery from external tools/sources
- Customer data in Cloudaware.
- Custom Objects
- Custom Fields
- Import/Export Wizard
Cloudaware for Cloud Security Engineers
This training provides in-depth knowledge to Security engineers, Cloud Architects, and Compliance officers on leveraging the security and compliance platform's features, including available third-party integrations. Training duration: 4 hours.
The training includes:
- Compliance Engine v1:
- Built-in Benchmarks
- Policy Template Library
- Custom Policies
- Compliance Engine v2.
- Managed Vulnerability Scanning.
- Managed Intrusion Detection.
- Breeze Agent.
- First-party security features
- Third-party agent management
- Security integrations.
Cloudaware for Policy Developers
This training provides in-depth knowledge around developing new custom Compliance Engine v1 policies. Training duration: 4 hours.
Preferably prior knowledge of:
- Basics in any programming language (beneficially C-like languages)
- Basics in SQL
The training includes:
- Anatomy of the policy.
- Basic SOQL and Apex.
- Features and limitations of Compliance Engine and Salesforce Apex.
- Policy development best practices.
Cloudaware also offers training on Compliance Engine v2.
Contact Cloudaware TAM
- Schedule training sessions through your Cloudaware Technical Account Manager (TAM) at
tam@cloudaware.com.