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.
Objectives
In this course, participants will learn the following skills:
- 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.
Audience
Audience
Audience
Audience
This course is intended for the following participants:
Customers
Prerequisites
To get the most of out of this course, participants should have:
Basic knowledge of cloud computing and Google Cloud technologies as discussed in the “Cloud Digital Leader” course.
Duration
1 day
Investment
Check the next open public class in our enrollment page. If you are interested in a private training class for your company, contact-us.
Course Outline
- Describe financial governance challenges for cloud resources.
- Describe industry trends in Cloud FinOps.
- Understand the Google Cloud FinOps framework
- Create a Cloud FinOps operating model.
- Define roles and responsibilities within a Cloud FinOps team.
- Establish governance and policies.
- Enable your organization through incentivization.
- Establish KPIs and value metrics.
- Understand value vs. cost.
- Establish transparency through reporting and accountability.
- Understand Google Cloud cost optimization approach.
- Implement visibility into resource utilization via tagging.
- Understand the golden signals.
- Describe resource, price, and architecture optimization.
- Optimize resource utilization.
- Understand budgeting and allocation.
- Forecast spend on cloud resources.
- Implement reporting and integration.
- Understand the Google Cloud billing model.
- Explore budgets and alerts on Google Cloud
- Tagging automation and resource management
- Describe cost management tools within Google Cloud
- Understand Cloud Cost Reporting