Optimizing Your Google Cloud Costs

About this course

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.

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
• Analyze your committed use discounts & Use advanced methods for cost control and optimization