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Course Description
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.Prerequisites
There are no prerequisites for this course
Curriculum
Course outline
1
Introduction
Learn the core pillars, adaptable design principles, and collaborative review methodologies that define the Google Cloud Well-Architected Framework.
- Introduction to the Google Cloud Well-Architected Framework50 XP
- Achieve business value through the framework50 XP
- The six pillars of the framework50 XP
- Well-Architected Framework principles50 XP
- Identify and avoid architectural anti-patterns50 XP
- What's next?50 XP
- Quiz — Question 150 XP
- Quiz — Question 250 XP
- Quiz — Question 350 XP
2
Operational excellence
Configure automated deployment pipelines and establish real-time observability telemetry to maintain smooth, consistent production operations.
3
Security, privacy, and compliance
Design a defense-in-depth security posture using zero-trust identity boundaries, cryptographic data protection, and automated compliance folders.
4
Reliability
Engineer highly available, fault-tolerant cloud architectures capable of absorbing massive traffic surges and recovering from regional failures.
5
Cost optimization
Establish cloud financial accountability, eliminate idle resource waste, and leverage strategic Google Cloud pricing models to optimize spend.
6
Performance optimization
Minimize application latency and maximize system throughput using horizontal autoscaling, distributed caching, and global network edge delivery.
7
Sustainability
Measure workload carbon footprints, select low-carbon regions, and design scale-to-zero serverless architectures to support corporate net-zero commitments.
8
Course summary and case study
Apply all six architectural pillars to a comprehensive enterprise case study using an interactive, prompt-driven AI review simulation.
9
Security
In this module, we cover security. Google has been operating securely in the cloud for 20 years. There is a strong belief that security empowers innovation. The approach of the cloud architect should be that security should be put first; everything else will follow from this.
10
Maintenance and Monitoring
In this final module of this course, we cover application maintenance and monitoring.
11
Course Resources
PDF links to all modules
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Google Cloud Architecture: Design Principles
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