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Google Cloud Fundamentals Cloud SQL versus Cloud Spanner versus Firestore

Google Cloud Fundamentals

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M1 — Cloud Concepts and Google Cloud Structure

Why organisations move workloads to cloud

Google Cloud regions, zones and edge locations

Projects, folders, organisations and resource hierarchy

Billing accounts, budgets, alerts and quota

The service catalogue and how to read documentation

Console tour and command line setup

M2 — Identity and Access Management

Cloud IAM roles, principals and permissions

Service accounts and workload identity federation

IAM policies, allow and deny policies

Basic, predefined and custom role differences

Organisation policy constraints

Access audit with Cloud Audit Logs

M3 — Compute Options

Compute Engine VMs, machine types and images

Managed instance groups and autoscaling

Cloud Run for containerised services

Cloud Functions for event-driven work

Google Kubernetes Engine at a high level

Choosing between compute options

M4 — Storage and Databases

Cloud Storage classes and lifecycle rules

Persistent disk and filestore

Cloud SQL versus Cloud Spanner versus Firestore

BigQuery as an analytics store

Data transfer and export paths

Backup, retention and recovery basics

M5 — Networking and Edge

VPC networks, subnets and routes

IP addressing, alias ranges and peering

Cloud Load Balancing types

Cloud DNS and Cloud CDN

Cloud NAT for private egress

Firewall rules and policy

M6 — Security Baseline

Shared responsibility on Google Cloud

Encryption at rest and in transit

Secret Manager and key management

VPC Service Controls overview

Security Command Center posture

Compliance reports and Assured Workloads

M7 — Cost Management and Operations

Reading and forecasting a cloud bill

Committed use and sustained use discounts

Rightsizing and autoscaling for cost

Cloud Monitoring metrics and dashboards

Cloud Logging basics

Tagging and cost allocation

M8 — Capstone: Platform Assessment

Assess an on-premise estate for cloud readiness

Draw the target resource hierarchy

Propose a compute, storage and network design

Estimate the monthly run cost

Write the IAM and security baseline

Present the recommendation with trade-offs

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