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.

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