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Jellyfish is an award-winning Google Cloud Partner. Our trainers work with Google Cloud on a daily basis, so you'll benefit from the years of industry experience they’ll share with you.
During this one-day session, we'll walk you through the five pillars of Google Cloud FinOps. We'll help you to understand the step-by-step process your organization can carry out in order to implement these pillars into its own FinOps approach.
This Getting Started with FinOps on Google Cloud course is available as a private session that can be delivered virtually or at a location of your choice in the US.
Course overview
Who should attend:
This course is ideal for Google Cloud customers who want to understand and manage the costs involved in migrating to a Google Cloud solution.
What you'll learn:
By the end of this course, you will be able to:
- 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
In order to get the most out of this course, we recommend you have basic knowledge of cloud computing and Google Cloud technologies; especially those discussed in the Cloud Digital Leader course.
Course agenda
- Financial governance challenges
- Cloud FinOps industry trends
- Google Cloud FinOps framework
- Cloud FinOps operating model
- Roles and responsibilities
- Governance and policies
- Incentivization
- Benefits of measurement and realization
- KPIs and value metrics
- Value vs. cost
- Transparency through reporting and accountability
- Google Cloud cost optimization approach
- Resource utilization
- Golden signals
- Resource, price, and architecture optimization
- Optimizing resource utilization
- Budgeting and allocation
- Forecasting spend
- Reporting and integration
- Google Cloud billing model
- Budgets and alerts on Google Cloud
- Tagging automation and resource management
- Cost management tools within Google Cloud
- Cloud Cost Reporting