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CourseraEssential Google Cloud Infrastructure: Core Services
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Korshub take
This is the hands-on core of Google Cloud's infrastructure curriculum, built around video lectures paired with real labs rather than slides alone. It's pitched at an intermediate level, assuming you already know roughly what cloud computing is and are ready to actually deploy something — networks, Compute Engine instances, storage, and the IAM policies that secure them.
Who it's for
Learners with some cloud or IT fundamentals who want practical reps configuring Google Cloud Platform infrastructure, not just conceptual familiarity for an interview.
What you'll practice
- Deploying infrastructure components: networks, systems, applications
- Identity and access management and role-based access control
- Cloud storage options and capacity management decisions
It's a heavily used course — over 152,926 learners — reflecting how central this material is to Google Cloud's broader certification path.
About this course
This accelerated on-demand course introduces participants to the comprehensive and flexible infrastructure and platform services provided by Google Cloud with a focus on Compute Engine. Through a combination of video lectures, demos, and hands-on labs, participants explore and deploy solution elements, including infrastructure components such as networks, systems and applications services. This course also covers deploying practical solutions including customer-supplied encryption keys, security
Skills you'll gain: Identity and Access Management, Google Cloud Platform, Cloud Infrastructure, Infrastructure As A Service (IaaS), Cloud Computing, Cloud Solutions, Cloud Engineering, Cloud Services, Cloud Computing Architecture, Data Storage Technologies, Cloud Management, Data Storage, Cloud Security, Role-Based Access Control (RBAC), Capacity Management.
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