Optimize Your Google Cloud Costs

This is the second Quest in a two-part series on Google Cloud billing and cost management essentials. This Quest is most suitable for those in a Finance and/or IT related role responsible for optimizing their organization’s cloud infrastructure. Here 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.

• Optimizing Your Google Cloud Costs
• Introduction: Optimizing Your Google Cloud Costs
• Setting up budgets and alerts for cost management
• Setting up cost controls with quota
• Analyzing your committed use discounts
• Setting up advanced cost controls
• Knowledge Check: Controlling Your Costs
• Lab walk-through - set 1
• Setting Up Cost Control with Quota
• Cloud Monitoring: Qwik Start
• Cloud Run Functions: Qwik Start - Command Line
• Lab walk-through - set 2
• Clean Up Unused IP Addresses
• Clean Up Unused and Orphaned Persistent Disks
• Optimizing Cost with Google Cloud Storage
• Network Tiers - Optimizing Network Spend
• Your Next Steps
• Course Badge