Optimizing Your Google Cloud Platform (GCP) Costs is the second course in a two-part series on GCP billing and cost management essentials. This course is most suitable for those in a Finance and/or IT related role responsible for optimizing their organization’s cloud infrastructure.
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You'll learn several ways to control and optimize your GCP costs, including setting up budgets and alerts, managing quota limits, and taking advantage of committed use discounts.
In the hands-on labs, you’ll practice using various tools to control and optimize your GCP costs or to influence your technology teams to apply the cost optimization best practices.
What You Will Learn
- Explain the operational prerequisites to achieve cloud cost optimization
- Differentiate between budgets and quota
- Set up budgets and alerts for actual and forecasted thresholds
- Use advanced methods for cost control and optimization
Syllabus
WEEK 1
Introduction
Setup Cost Controls
Get your Google Cloud Platform cost controls under your control.
WEEK 2
Hands-on with Cost Controls
Optimize your queries to run within quota, monitor a Google Compute Engine virtual machine and create and deploy a Cloud Function with these hands-on labs.
WEEK 3
Get hands-on practice with a GCP Billing Account
Clean up and optimize your GCP resource usage.
