Module 1: Introducing Google Cloud

• What is cloud computing?
• Google Cloud Computing architectures
• The Google network
• Google Cloud Regions and Zones
• Google Cloud versus Azure regions and zones
• Open API’s
• Multi-layered security approach
• Budgets and Billing

Module 2: Getting Started with Google Cloud

• Google Cloud resource hierarchy
• Comparison to Azure resource hierarchy
• Identity and Access Management (IAM)
• IAM Roles
• Comparison to Azure AD
• Interacting with Google Cloud
• Cloud Marketplace

Module 3: Virtual Machines in the Cloud

• Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) Network
• How Azure VNet differs from Google VPC
• Compute Engine
• Comparing Azure VM and Google Compute Engine
• Important VPC Capabilities
• How typical approaches to load-balancing in Google Cloud differ from those in Azure

Module 4: Storage in the Cloud

• Cloud Storage
• Cloud Storage Interactions
• Comparing Azure Blob Storage with Google Cloud Storage
• Cloud Bigtable
• Cloud SQL and Cloud Spanner
• Cloud Datastore
• Comparing Azure SQL with Google Cloud’s managed database services
• Comparing Storage Options

Module 5: Containers in the Cloud

• Containers in the Cloud
• Kubernetes and Kubernetes Engine
• Hybrid and Multi-Cloud
• How Azure Kubernetes Service differ from GKE

Module 6: Applications in the Cloud

• App Engine Standard Environment
• App Engine Flexible Environment
• Comparison to Azure App Service
• Cloud Endpoints and Apigee Edge

Module 7: Developing, Deploying and Monitoring in the Cloud

• Development in the cloud
• Deployment: Infrastructure as code
• How Cloud Deployment Manager differs from Azure Resource Manager
• Monitoring: Proactive instrumentation
• How Cloud Operations differs from Azure application Insights

Module 8: Big Data and Machine Learning in the Cloud

• Google Cloud Big Data Platform
• Dataflow
• BigQuery
• How BigQuery differs from Azure Data Lake Analytics
• Pub/sub and Datalab
• How Cloud Pub/Sub differs from Azure Events Hub
• Google Cloud Machine Learning Platform
• ML APIs
• How GCP’s machine-learning APIs differ from Azure’s

Module 9: Summary and Review

• Course Review
• The Process of migrating from Azure to Google Cloud
• Next Steps