Getting Started with FinOps on 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.
What you will learn
- 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.
Prerequisites
- Basic knowledge of cloud computing and Google Cloud technologies as discussed in the "Cloud Digital Leader" course.
Target audience
- Customers
Training Program
6 modules to master the fundamentals
Objectives
- Describe financial governance challenges for cloud resources.
- Describe industry trends in Cloud FinOps.
- Understand the Google Cloud FinOps framework.
Topics covered
- →Financial governance challenges
- →Cloud FinOps industry trends
- →Google Cloud FinOps framework
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.
Topics covered
- →Cloud FinOps operating model
- →Roles and responsibilities
- →Governance and policies
- →Incentivization
Activities
Discussion: Establishing a Cloud FinOps operating model
Objectives
- Establish KPIs and value metrics.
- Understand value vs. cost.
- Establish transparency through reporting and accountability.
Topics covered
- →Benefits of measurement and realization
- →KPIs and value metrics
- →Value vs. cost
- →Transparency through reporting and accountability
Activities
Discussion: Value vs. cost
Discussion: Transparency through reporting and accountability
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.
Topics covered
- →Google Cloud cost optimization approach
- →Resource utilization
- →Golden signals
- →Resource, price, and architecture optimization
- →Optimizing resource utilization
Activities
Discussion: Understanding the golden signals
Discussion: Resource, pricing, and architectural optimization
Objectives
- Understand budgeting and allocation.
- Forecast spend on cloud resources.
- Implement reporting and integration.
- Understand the Google Cloud billing model.
Topics covered
- →Budgeting and allocation
- →Forecasting spend
- →Reporting and integration
- →Google Cloud billing model
Activities
Discussion: Budgeting, allocating, and forecasting
Objectives
- Explore budgets and alerts on Google Cloud
- Tagging automation and resource management
- Describe cost management tools within Google Cloud
- Understand Cloud Cost Reporting
Topics covered
- →Budgets and alerts on Google Cloud
- →Tagging automation and resource management
- →Cost management tools within Google Cloud
- →Cloud Cost Reporting
Quality Process
SFEIR Institute's commitment: an excellence approach to ensure the quality and success of all our training programs. Learn more about our quality approach
- Lectures / Theoretical Slides — Presentation of concepts using visual aids (PowerPoint, PDF).
- Technical Demonstration (Demos) — The instructor performs a task or procedure while students observe.
- Guided Labs — Guided practical exercises on software, hardware, or technical environments.
- Quiz / MCQ — Quick knowledge check (paper-based or digital via tools like Kahoot/Klaxoon).
The achievement of training objectives is evaluated at multiple levels to ensure quality:
- Continuous Knowledge Assessment : Verification of knowledge throughout the training via participatory methods (quizzes, practical exercises, case studies) under instructor supervision.
- Progress Measurement : Comparative self-assessment system including an initial diagnostic to determine the starting level, followed by a final evaluation to validate skills development.
- Quality Evaluation : End-of-session satisfaction questionnaire to measure the relevance and effectiveness of the training as perceived by participants.
Train multiple employees
- Volume discounts (multiple seats)
- Private or custom session
- On-site or remote