Google Cloud Platform in Action
by JJ Geewax · JJ Geewax
JJ Geewax's Manning guide to building on Google Cloud, covering Compute Engine, App Engine, Kubernetes Engine, Cloud Storage, Cloud SQL, Datastore, Bigtable, BigQuery and machine-learning APIs. Readers learn how each service works, what it costs, and how to choose between them for a workload.
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More resources on Google Cloud Platform
cloud.google.com/learn
Google Cloud Learn is Google's official training hub for cloud fundamentals, offering guided tutorials, interactive labs, and learning paths to master Google Cloud services. It includes beginner-to-advanced courses, quickstarts, and certification prep to build practical cloud skills.
Google Cloud Fundamentals: Core Infrastructure
Learn Google Cloud fundamentals! This course covers core infrastructure components, setting you up for success on the platform.
Google Cloud Documentation
Google's official product documentation for Google Cloud: quickstarts, conceptual overviews, how-to guides and API references for Compute Engine, Cloud Storage, BigQuery, IAM and the rest. The reference you return to once a tutorial stops covering your case.
Google Skills
Google's official training platform, offering guided labs that run in temporary, provisioned Google Cloud projects alongside courses and skill badges. Practice provisioning real resources, IAM, networking and storage against Google's own environment rather than a simulator.
Google Cloud Platform Podcast
The Google Cloud Platform Podcast, coming to you every week. Discussing everything on Google Cloud Platform from App Engine to BigQuery.
Official Google Cloud Certified Professional Cloud Architect Study Guide
Dan Sullivan's official Sybex study guide (first edition, 2019) for the Professional Cloud Architect exam. Chapters map to the exam objectives, covering business and technical requirements, compute, storage and network design, security, migration planning and reliability, with review questions and online practice tests.