Getting Started with FinOps on Google Cloud - Practitioner
(GC-GSFGC-P)
This course is a hands-on learning experience designed to provide an actionable set of steps to help your organizations implement a Cloud Financial Operations (FinOps) strategy to maximize your cloud investment with Google Cloud. This course is suitable for Finance and/or IT related roles responsible for optimizing organization's cloud cost.
What you'll learn
- Describe Cloud FinOps
- Apply FinOps Cultural Principles
- Explain the Cloud FinOps Framework
- Manage and implement Cloud cost processes
- Monitor spend and build Cloud cost reports
- Create Forecasts in Google Cloud
Who this course is for
Customers
Products
- Compute Engine
- BigQuery
- Looker Studio
- Looker
Prerequisite
Completion of the “Google Cloud Fundamentals: Core Infrastructure” course or equivalent experience with Google Cloud
Course Modules
Cloud FinOps Overview
- Challenges in cloud
- What is Cloud FinOps
- Why does FinOps Matter
- Building blocks of FinOps
- Capabilities framework
- Cultural principles
- Building a Cloud FinOps team
- Measuring success
- The road ahead
Cost Management on Google Cloud
- Understanding Google Cloud Costs
- Cost Management Tools
- Resource Management
Cost Optimization on Google Cloud
- Understanding Value vs. Cost
- Lifecycle of Cost Optimization
- Achieving Cost Optimization on Google Cloud
Cost Optimization Best Practices for BigQuery
- Primer on BigQuery
- Optimizing Querying
- Optimizing Storage