Getting Started with Cloud Acquisition

Explore effective strategies for cloud acquisition

Explore AWS Cloud acquisition by examining procurement strategies, buying approaches, organisational requirements, stakeholder engagement, and the AWS Partner Network to support effective cloud adoption.

Apply cloud acquisition approaches with confidence

Discover how buying approaches, stakeholder considerations, common acquisition questions, and AWS Partner Network opportunities can support effective cloud procurement and adoption.

You’ll access learning content and practical activities online through Amazon Web Services (AWS), alongside your FutureLearn course experience, giving you direct access to AWS learning as you progress.

This course is ideal for C-suite leaders and professionals across procurement, finance, commercial, HR, security, risk, compliance, internal audit, legal, contracts, programme, and project management roles.

This course is ideal for C-suite leaders and professionals across procurement, finance, commercial, HR, security, risk, compliance, internal audit, legal, contracts, programme, and project management roles.

• Build cloud technology considerations into acquisition strategies
• Identify how cloud acquisition affects all elements of your organization, such as security, legal, and finance
• Describe different buying approaches and when to use them, such as frameworks, existing contracts, and dynamic purchasing systems
• Recognize the value proposition of cloud service providers (CSPs) and their partners
• Identify how and when to bring in partners, and when it makes more sense to buy directly from a CSP
• Identify the key stakeholders in your organizations and how to effectively engage them on cloud acquisition considerations that might affect them
• Recognize common acquisition questions and how to answer them
• Work with the AWS Partner Network (APN Network).