Optimizing Your Google Cloud Costs

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Free Online Course: Optimizing Your Google Cloud Costs provided by Coursera is a comprehensive online course, which lasts for 3 weeks long, 6-7 hours worth of material. The course is taught in English and is free of charge. Upon completion of the course, you can receive an e-certificate from Coursera. Optimizing Your Google Cloud Costs is taught by Google Cloud Training.

Overview
  • Optimizing Your Google Cloud Costs is the second course in a two-part series on Google Cloud 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.

    You'll learn several ways to control and optimize your Google Cloud 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 Google Cloud costs or to influence your technology teams to apply the cost optimization best practices.

Syllabus
    • Introduction
      • Introduction to the course
    • Set Up Cost Controls
      • Get your Google Cloud cost controls under your control.
    • Hands-on with Cost Controls
      • Optimize your queries to run within quota, monitor a Compute Engine virtual machine and create and deploy a Cloud Function with these hands-on labs.
    • Get Hands-on Practice with a Google Cloud Billing Account
      • Clean up and optimize your Google Cloud resource usage.