Course Overview
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.
Prerequisites
Completion of the Google Cloud Fundamentals: Core Infrastructure (GCF-CI) course or equivalent experience with Google Cloud.
Course Objectives
- 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
Outline: Getting Started with FinOps on Google Cloud Course - NonTech (GSFO-NT)
Module 1 - 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
Module 2 - Cost Management on Google Cloud
- Understanding Google Cloud Costs
- Cost Management Tools
- Resource Management
Activities:
- Quiz 1
- Lab - Understanding and Analyzing your Costs with Google Cloud
- Quiz 2
- Lab 2 - Visualizing Billing Data with Looker Studio
- Optional Lab - Looker Data Explorer
Module 3 - Cost Optimization on Google Cloud
- Understanding Value vs. Cost
- Lifecycle of Cost Optimization
- Achieving Cost Optimization on Google Cloud
Activities:
- Quiz 3
- Lab - Fundamentals of Cloud Logging
- Quiz 4 - Knowledge Reinforcement
Module 4 - Cost Optimization Best Practices for BigQuery
- Primer on BigQuery
- Optimizing Querying
- Optimizing Storage
Activities: Demo - Optimizing your Google Cloud Spend with BigQuery and Looker Lab: Analyzing Billing Data with BigQuery