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Getting Started with FinOps on Google Cloud (GSFGC)

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.

- Financial Analysts
- Finance Managers
- Business Unit Leaders

Getting Started with FinOps on Google Cloud (GSFGC) Objectives

  • 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.

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  • Getting Started with FinOps on Google Cloud (GSFGC) Outline

    Module 1 - Introduction to FinOps on Google Cloud

    Topics:

    - Financial governance challenges
    - Cloud FinOps industry trends
    - Google Cloud FinOps framework

    Objectives:

    - Describe financial governance challenges for cloud resources
    - Describe industry trends in Cloud FinOps
    - Understand the Google Cloud FinOps framework

    Module 2 - Accountability and Enablement

    Topics:

    - Cloud FinOps operating model
    - Roles and responsibilities
    - Governance and policies
    - Incentivization

    Objectives:

    - Create a Cloud FinOps operating model
    - Define roles and responsibilities within a Cloud FinOps team
    - Establish governance and policies
    - Enable your organization through incentivization

    Activities:

    - Discussion: Establishing a Cloud FinOps operating model

    Module 3 - Measurement and Realization

    Topics:

    - Benefits of measurement and realization
    - KPIs and value metrics
    - Value vs. cost
    - Transparency through reporting and accountability

    Objectives:

    - Establish KPIs and value metrics
    - Understand value vs. cost
    - Establish transparency through reporting and accountability

    Activities:

    - Discussion: Value vs. costs
    - Discussion: Transparency through reporting and accountability

    Module 4 - Cost Optimization

    Topics:

    - Google Cloud cost optimization approach
    - Resource utilization
    - Golden signals
    - Resource, price, and architecture optimization
    - Optimizing resource utilization

    Objectives:

    - 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

    Activities:

    - Discussion: Understanding the golden signals
    - Discussion: Resource, pricing, and architectural optimization

    Module 5 - Planning and Forecasting

    Topics:

    - Budgeting and allocation
    - Forecasting spend
    - Reporting and integration
    - Google Cloud billing model

    Objectives:

    - Understand budgeting and allocation
    - Forecast spend on cloud resources
    - Implement reporting and integration
    - Understand the Google Cloud billing model

    Activities:

    - Discussion: Budgeting, allocating, and forecasting

    Module 6 - Tools and Accelerators

    Topics:

    - Budgets and alerts on Google Cloud
    - Tagging automation and resource management
    - Cost management tools within Google Cloud
    - Cloud Cost Reporting

    Objectives:

    - Explore budgets and alerts on Google Cloud
    - Tagging automation and resource management
    - Describe cost management tools within Google Cloud
    - Understnad Cloud Cost Reporting

  • Getting Started with FinOps on Google Cloud (GSFGC) Course Format

    Live Virtual Course

  • Getting Started with FinOps on Google Cloud (GSFGC) Prerequisites

    Basic knowledge of cloud computing and Google Cloud technologies as discussed in the ``Cloud Digital Leader`` course.

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