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Get started with Google Cloud

Start by creating a Google Cloud account. Plus, you get $300 in free credits and free usage of 20+ products on signup to run, test, and deploy workloads.
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Get started with Google Cloud

Get hands-on experience with free usage of 20+ products, including popular products like AI APIs, Compute Engine, BigQuery, and more.
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Start your platform setup

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IT administration

Establish administrators, billing accounts, and other settings in your Google Cloud environment.

1
 Establish your organization, administrators, and billing
2
 Create an initial architecture
3
 Deploy or download configuration

Resources for later:

  • Cloud Quotas overview
  • Google Cloud deployment archetypes (Architecture Center)

FinOps administration

Set up billing, spending notifications, and resource structure to facilitate cost monitoring and optimization.

1
 Learn about Cloud Billing
2
 Create a billing account
3
 Set up spending notifications
4
 Enable billing data export for custom reporting

Resources for later:

  • Monitor costs using billing reports
  • Optimize costs with FinOps hub
  • Resource hierarchy options for cost tracking
  • Implement cost optimization strategies (Architecture Center)

Security engineering

Familiarize yourself with core security concepts and tools that impact your security, privacy, and compliance controls.

1
 Set up API access
2
 Set up a local development environment
3
 Learn about IAM in Google Cloud
4
 Understand identity management
5
 Learn about organization policies

Resources for later:

  • Software supply chain security
  • Security Command Center overview
  • Well-Architected Framework: Security, privacy, and compliance (Architecture Center)

DevOps engineering

Start automating infrastructure and secure collaboration with teammates using Google Cloud tools and best practices.

1
 Set up API access
2
 Set up a local development environment
3
 Enable teammates using IAM
4
 Choose and install a Cloud Client Library
5
 Learn about authentication
6
 Learn about authorization and access control

Resources for later:

  • Observability in Google Cloud
  • Terraform and Infrastructure Manager
  • CI/CD pipeline for containerized apps (Architecture Center)

Application development

Get basic API access and set up a development environment that can interact with Google Cloud services.

1
 Set up API access
2
 Set up a local development environment
3
 Choose and install a Cloud Client Library
4
 Set up IDE extensions
5
 Learn about authentication basics
6
 Learn about authorization and access control

Resources for later:

  • Choose models and infrastructure for a generative AI application

Data analysis

Analyze sample data using Google Cloud products with minimal setup.

1
 Load and query sample data
2
 Explore, analyze, and share data
3
 Learn about programmatic analysis tools
4
 Introduction to AI and ML in BigQuery

Resources for later:

  • Set up the bq command-line tool
  • Gemini in BigQuery overview
  • Data analytics design patterns (Architecture Center)
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Jump Start Solutions

Learn and experiment with pre-built solution templates.
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Cloud SDK, languages, frameworks, and tools

Discover tools, resources, and products that enable interaction with Google Cloud using code.
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Google Cloud Well-Architected Framework

Follow recommendations and best practices to design and operate a well-architected cloud topology.
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Google Cloud products at a glance

A quick reference for Google Cloud products.
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Google Cloud for AWS and Azure users

Compare AWS and Azure services to Google Cloud.
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Training & certification

Explore our curriculum and grow your skills with Google Cloud Training.

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