2Planning and configuring a cloud solution
- 2.1Choosing compute
Understand how to choose among four compute options by workload (Compute Engine VMs, managed Kubernetes GKE, serverless containers on Cloud Run, event-driven Cloud Functions), plus Spot VMs for cost and custom machine types to fit requirements.
- 2.2Choosing storage and databases
Understand how to choose among Google Cloud data services—relational (Cloud SQL, Spanner), NoSQL (Firestore, Bigtable), analytics (BigQuery), and object storage (Cloud Storage)—and how to pick Cloud Storage classes (Standard, Nearline, Coldline, Archive) and Persistent Disk types.
- 2.3Planning networking
Understand the basics of planning network resources: designing availability with regions and zones, choosing a load balancer by use case, and selecting Network Service Tiers (Premium / Standard) for performance and cost.

