What you'll learn

Optimizing performance while controlling costs is a key challenge in modern cloud environments. In this course, Google Cloud Professional DevOps Engineer: Optimizing Performance and Cost, you’ll learn to analyze and optimize workloads effectively using Google Cloud tools and best practices. First, you’ll explore how to collect and interpret performance signals using monitoring, tracing, and Active Assist insights. Next, you’ll discover how to apply FinOps principles to analyze costs, reduce waste, and leverage recommendation systems for optimization. Finally, you’ll learn how to optimize individual workloads across Compute Engine, Cloud Run, and GKE using scaling strategies and resource tuning techniques. When you’re finished with this course, you’ll have the skills and knowledge of performance and cost optimization needed to improve system efficiency, reduce unnecessary spend, and operate cloud workloads with confidence.