Getting Started with FinOps on Google Cloud
This course is an interactive learning experience designed to provide an actionable set of steps to help your organizations implement a Cloud Financial Management strategy to maximize your cloud investment with Google Cloud. In this class you will walk through the five pillars of Google Cloud FinOps and understand how your organization can work to implement these pillars in their own FinOps approach.
- Duration: 1 day
- Languages: English, German
- Level: Introductory
- Group size: Up to 16
What you'll learn
- Address financial governance challenges with Cloud FinOps.
- Understand the five pillars of the Google Cloud FinOps operating model.
- Establish cloud FinOps policies and enablement for your organization.
- Drive financial accountability and value realization with defined success metrics.
- Understand how to optimize costs of your utilized Google Cloud resources.
- Modernize budgeting and forecasting methods.
- Leverage costing tools to effectively manage and track Google Cloud spend.
Prerequisites
- Basic knowledge of cloud computing and Google Cloud technologies as discussed in the "Cloud Digital Leader" course.
Course outline
Introduction to FinOps on Google Cloud
- Financial governance challenges
- Cloud FinOps industry trends
- Google Cloud FinOps framework
Accountability and Enablement
- Cloud FinOps operating model
- Roles and responsibilities
- Governance and policies
- Incentivization
Measurement and Realization
- Benefits of measurement and realization
- KPIs and value metrics
- Value vs. cost
- Transparency through reporting and accountability
Cost Optimization
- Google Cloud cost optimization approach
- Resource utilization
- Golden signals
- Resource, price, and architecture optimization
- Optimizing resource utilization
Planning and Forecasting
- Budgeting and allocation
- Forecasting spend
- Reporting and integration
- Google Cloud billing model
Tools and Accelerators
- Budgets and alerts on Google Cloud
- Tagging automation and resource management
- Cost management tools within Google Cloud • Cloud Cost Reporting
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