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Google Cloud Fundamentals for AWS Professionals

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Overview

Google Cloud Fundamentals for AWS Professionals introduces important concepts and terminology for working with Google Cloud. Through videos and hands-on labs, this course presents and compares many of Google Cloud's computing and storage services, along with important resource and policy management tools.

Syllabus

  • Course Introduction
    • Course Introduction
  • Introducing Google Cloud
    • Cloud computing overview
    • IaaS and PaaS
    • The Google Cloud network
    • Comparing regions and zones in Google Cloud and AWS
    • Environmental impact
    • Security
    • Open source ecosystems
    • Pricing and billing
    • Quiz : Introducing Google Cloud
  • Resources and Access in the Cloud
    • Google Cloud resource hierarchy
    • Comparing the Google Cloud and AWS resource hierarchies
    • Identity and Access Management (IAM)
    • Service accounts
    • Comparing AWS IAM to Google Cloud IAM
    • Cloud Identity
    • Interacting with Google Cloud
    • Google Cloud Fundamentals: Getting Started with Cloud Marketplace
    • Quiz: Resources and Access in Google Cloud
  • Virtual Machines and Networks in the Cloud
    • Virtual Private Cloud networking
    • Comparing Amazon VPC to Google VPC
    • Compute Engine
    • Comparing Amazon EC2 and Compute Engine
    • Scaling virtual machines
    • Important VPC compatibilities
    • Cloud Load Balancing
    • Comparing load balancing in Google Cloud and AWS
    • Cloud DNS and Cloud CDN
    • Connecting networks to Google VPC
    • Getting Started with VPC Networking and Google Compute Engine
    • Quiz: Virtual Machines and Networks in the Cloud
  • Storage in the Cloud
    • Google Cloud storage options
    • Cloud Storage
    • Cloud Storage: Storage classes and data transfer
    • Comparing Amazon S3 and Amazon Glacier to Cloud Storage
    • Cloud SQL
    • Comparing Amazon RDS with Cloud SQL
    • Cloud Spanner
    • Firestore
    • Cloud Bigtable
    • Comparing storage options
    • Google Cloud Fundamentals: Getting Started with Cloud Storage and Cloud SQL
    • Quiz: Storage in the Cloud
  • Containers in the Cloud
    • Introduction to containers
    • Kubernetes
    • Google Kubernetes Engine
    • Hybrid and multi-cloud
    • Anthos
    • Comparing Amazon Elastic Container Service to Google Kubernetes Engine
    • Google Cloud Fundamentals: Getting Started with GKE
    • Quiz: Containers in the Cloud
  • Applications in the Cloud
    • App Engine
    • App Engine environments
    • Comparing App Engine to Amazon Elastic Beanstalk
    • Google Cloud API management tools
    • Cloud Run
    • Hello Cloud Run
    • Quiz: Applications in the Cloud
  • Developing and Deploying in the Cloud
    • Development in the cloud
    • Deployment: Infrastructure as Code
    • Automating the Deployment of Infrastructure Using Terraform
    • Quiz: Developing and Deploying in the Cloud
  • Logging and Monitoring in the Cloud
    • The importance of monitoring
    • Measuring performance and reliability
    • Understanding SLIs, SLOs, and SLAs
    • Integrated observability tools
    • Monitoring tools
    • Logging tools
    • Error reporting and debugging tools
    • Comparing Cloud Monitoring to Amazon CloudWatch
    • Quiz: Logging and Monitoring in the Cloud
  • Course Summary
    • Course summary
    • Course Resources
  • Your Next Steps
    • Course Badge

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