Design Cloud Architectures With Confidence

Good cloud architecture is about more than picking services. It means making deliberate trade-offs so your systems stay reliable, secure, and affordable as they grow. This course introduces the principles Google Cloud uses to guide production-grade designs.

Apply the Well-Architected Framework

You’ll learn how to apply the Google Cloud Well-Architected Framework, using its pillars of operational excellence, security, reliability, cost optimization, and performance optimization to evaluate design choices. You’ll practice turning business and technical requirements into concrete architecture decisions and weighing the trade-offs between competing goals.

Review and Improve Real Workloads

The course then shifts from theory to practice. You’ll build a practical architectural playbook you can reuse, and develop the critical-thinking skills needed to lead architecture reviews and spot opportunities for improvement. By the end, you’ll be able to design resilient cloud environments and confidently assess and optimize existing workloads on Google Cloud.

Exploring Cost-optimization for GKE Virtual Machines

Google Cloud Architecture: Design Principles

Exercise instructions