Optimizing 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.

• Introduction: Optimizing Your Google Cloud Costs
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• Setting Up Budgets and Alerts for Cost Management
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• Setting Up Cost Controls with Quota
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• Analyzing Your Committed Use Discounts
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• Setting Up Advanced Cost Controls
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• Knowledge Check: Controlling Your Costs
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• Lab Walkthrough: First Set
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• Setting Up Cost Control with Quota
• In this lab you will query a large dataset, update the BigQuery API quota, and then optimize your query to run within quota.
• Cloud Monitoring: Qwik Start
• This lab shows you how to monitor a Google Compute Engine virtual machine (VM) instance with Cloud Monitoring. Watch the short videos Monitor Health of All Your Cloud Apps with Google Cloud monitoring and Monitor a VM Instance with Cloud monitoring, GCP Essentials.
• Cloud Functions: Qwik Start - Command Line
• This hands-on lab shows you how to create and deploy a Cloud Function using the Cloud Platform Command Line. Watch the short video Connect & Extend GCP Services with Google Cloud Functions.
• Lab Walkthrough: Second Set
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• Clean Up Unused IP Addresses
• In this lab you will schedule a Cloud Function to identify and clean up unused IP addresses.
• Clean Up Unused and Orphaned Persistent Disks
• In this lab you will schedule a Cloud Function to identify and clean up unused and orphaned persistent disks.
• Optimizing Cost with Google Cloud Storage
• In this lab you will configure Cloud Monitoring to observe bucket object access and deploy a Cloud Function to migrate objects from a Regional bucket to a Nearline bucket.
• Network Tiers - Optimizing Network Spend
• In this lab, you create one VM in the premium network service tier (default) and one VM in the standard network service tier. Then you compare the latency and routes for each VM instance.