Google Cloud: Controlling Cost

1h 21mIntermediate2022-10-07

Authors

Lynn Langit

Cloud Architect

Course details

Moving workloads to the cloud has many benefits, but without successful management, costs can be a big concern. In this course, instructor Lynn Langit shows you how to select and use tools and patterns to control Google Cloud service costs, helping them understand and use the best-fit Google Cloud tools and practices for cost control. Lynn goes over using billing reports, filtering cost views, and controlling compute engine costs, Kubernetes costs, and serverless costs. She explains how to control bucket costs, disk costs, CloudSQL and Spanner costs, and other data-related expenses. After providing an in-depth discussion of networking cost control, Lynn introduces cloud monitoring tools and how to use them for tasks like cloud billing, budgets and alerts, quotas, payment options, costs visualization, and more.

Skills covered

Google CloudBusiness AnalysisSoftware Development ToolsGoogleProject ManagementCloud PlatformsCloud ComputingBusiness Analysis and StrategySoftware DevelopmentOne-Off

Concepts

0. Introduction

01 - State of Google Cloud cost control
02 - Who should watch this course
03 - A note about working with cloud services

1. Compute Cost Control

04 - Use billing reports
05 - Filter cost views
06 - Control Compute Engine costs
07 - Control Kubernetes costs
08 - Control Serverless costs

2. Data Cost Control

09 - Control bucket costs
10 - Control disk costs
11 - Control Cloud SQL and Spanner costs
12 - Control BigQuery costs
13 - Control BigTable costs

3. Networking Cost Control

14 - Control network ingress costs
15 - Control network egress and load balancer costs
16 - Control network logging costs
17 - Control monitoring costs

4. Cost Monitoring Tools

18 - Understand Cloud Billing
19 - Use budgets and alerts
20 - Use quotas
21 - Understand payment options
22 - Use committed use discounts
23 - Visualize costs with dashboards

Conclusion

24 - Next steps with controlling costs