Understanding Your Google Cloud Costs

About this course

Understanding Your Google Cloud Costs is most suitable for those working in a technology or finance role who are responsible for managing Google Cloud costs. You’ll learn how to set up a billing account, organize resources, and manage billing access permissions. In the hands-on labs, you'll learn how to view your invoice, track your Google Cloud costs with Billing reports, analyze your billing data with BigQuery or Google Sheets, and create custom billing dashboards with Looker Studio. Students enrolling in this course do not need any prior Google Cloud technical experience.

What you will learn

• Plan for effective cloud cost management by setting up your teams, tools, and applying financial governance best practices.
• Export Billing reports to Google Sheets or BigQuery to gain visibility into your current cost trends and forecasted costs.
• Set up Google Cloud Billing account(s) and organize your resources for cost management
• Visualize billing data with Billing reports and build custom dashboards with Looker Studio