intermediate~3h
IAM and Cost Management on GCP
GCP's IAM role model, how service accounts work and where they commonly go wrong, and the billing tools -- budgets, alerts, and basic cost-optimization practices -- every team should have in place before costs become a surprise.
Learning objectives
- Distinguish primitive, predefined, and custom IAM roles and explain why predefined roles are the usual production default
- Explain what a service account is, how it differs from a user account, and the risk a long-lived service account key introduces
- Configure a budget with threshold-based alerts for a GCP project
- Apply basic cost-optimization practices across compute, storage, and committed-use discounts
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IAM and Cost Management on GCP