Cost Control on GCP

By Matthew Ulasien

Learn to manage your billing accounts and take control of your cost in the cloud.

1 hour
  • 11 Lessons

About the course

Moving to the cloud has many advantages, however, it can also be easy to run into unwelcome, runaway costs! This course arms you with the knowledge needed to control, access, view, and optimize your billing accounts and costs.

To get the full value out of this course, it is highly recommended that have familiarity in navigating the GCP web console, and with creating and working on projects.

  • Chapter 1 2 Lessons Getting Started 5:25

    Course Introduction

    1:21

    Billing Resource Organization Basics

    4:04
  • Chapter 2 2 Lessons Managing Billing Access 13:52

    Control Billing Access with IAM Roles

    6:16

    Hands On - Billing Access Control

    7:36
  • Chapter 3 5 Lessons Cost Visibility and Analysis 24:24

    Section Introduction - Cost Visibility and Analysis

    0:41

    Cost Visibility with Billing Reports

    9:55

    Export Billing Data to BigQuery

    6:43

    Billing Alerts with Budgets

    6:24

    Section Summary - Cost Visibility and Analysis

    0:41
  • Chapter 4 1 Lesson Reducing Costs on GCP 11:38

    Tools to Reduce Identified Costs

    11:38
  • Chapter 5 1 Lesson Wrapping Up 1:12

    Course Conclusion and Next Steps

    1:12

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