Google Cloud: Controlling Cost

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.