Academy

nOps Academy

Your Guided Path to Cloud Cost Optimization

Discover a step-by-step learning experience built exclusively for nOps customers and partners. The Academy equips your team with the tools and insights needed to improve cost visibility, align cloud spend to business goals, and maximize savings with confidence.

Learn from expert-led modules on cost allocation, budgeting, optimization tools, and more—powered by the nOps platform.

nOps manages $2B in annual AWS spend for innovative brands, from startups to enterprises, saving them 50%+ autonomously.

Inform Part 1: Explorer, Analysis & Insights

In this module, you'll learn how to use nOps Explorer to drill into your cloud spend, analyze cost trends, and surface key insights. Whether you're troubleshooting spend anomalies or understanding usage patterns, this is where visibility begins.

Inform Part 2: AWS MAP, Cost Allocation & Showbacks

This module dives into how to structure your cloud spend with business-aligned views using AWS MAP data, cost allocation tags, and showback reporting. Learn how to track workloads, teams, and environments—so every dollar spent is tied to business value.

Inform Par 3: Granular visibility into EKS clusters using nOps Inform

This module explores how to install and use the lightweight nOps Kubernetes agent to capture detailed cost and usage data from your EKS clusters. Learn how to drill down to pod-level visibility, identify excess capacity, and uncover potential savings opportunities—all within the nOps Inform Explorer.

Operate Part 1: Budgets, Business Unit Economics & Contract Tracking

In this module, learn how to set and track budgets across business units, analyze true cloud economics, and monitor AWS contracts and commitments in one place. You'll gain the tools to improve forecasting, enforce guardrails, and align costs with organizational goals.

Optimize Part 1: Overview of nOps Optimization Tools

This module introduces the core nOps tools designed to identify, automate, and implement cloud cost optimizations—without the manual lift. From commitment management to rightsizing and spot orchestration, see how nOps helps teams reduce waste and increase efficiency at scale.

Optimize Part 2: Container and Storage Optimization, Resource Scheduler

In this module, you’ll learn how to reduce cloud waste by rightsizing containers, cleaning up unused storage, and scheduling idle resources. Discover how nOps helps automate savings across Kubernetes, EBS volumes, and non-production workloads.

Clara Part 1: Homepage Feed & Scheduler

In this module, you’ll learn how to navigate the new nOps homepage powered by Clara, our FinOps agent. The session covers how to use the chat interface to ask questions, save prompts, and explore your personalized feed of insights and reports. You’ll also see how to review detailed conversations with full charts, CSVs, and export options. Finally, we walk through the scheduler—making it easy to automate recurring prompts and deliver reports directly to email or Slack.