Course Overview
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.
Who should attend
- Financial Analysts
- Finance Managers
- Business Unit Leaders
Prerequisites
Basic knowledge of cloud computing and Google Cloud technologies as discussed in the "Cloud Digital Leader" course.
Course 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.
Outline: Getting Started with FinOps on Google Cloud (GSFGC)
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