Sharpen your skills as a Cloud Architect

Looking to learn new skills, explore the latest trends, or prepare for your next career opportunity as a Cloud Architect?
Our essential guide has you covered, with $300 in free Google Cloud credits to get you started.

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Hit the ground running with helpful design guides, reference architectures, and resources.

Explore design guides

Covering everything from AI to storage, use these guides when creating your own architectures or adapting one of ours.

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Use the Google Cloud Architecture Framework to design and operate a secure, high-performing, and cost-effective cloud topology.

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Explore wide-ranging resources to help you migrate workloads, data, and processes to Google Cloud.

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Deploy or adapt these migration, networking, and storage cloud topologies to meet your needs.

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Build your skills

Dive into labs, tutorials, and Jump Start Solutions designed to help expand your skills as a Cloud Architect.

Estimate your Google Cloud costs

Learn how to estimate the costs of running your infrastructure on Google Cloud with Migration Center.

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Get hands-on practice with Migration Center by running an infrastructure assessment with the discovery client.

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Learn how to create a Windows Server VM instance in Compute Engine using the Google Cloud console.

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Learn how to deploy a Java application (xWiki) using Compute Engine VMs.

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Learn how to create a VM cluster with a load balancer, make VMs globally available, and instantaneously manage traffic.

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Formalize your learning

Prove your skills with these Cloud Architect courses and certifications.

Go the extra mile

Specific learning paths for different areas of Cloud Architecture:

Cloud Architecture learning paths

Engineering learning paths

Not sure where to start?

A great place for Cloud Architects to start is right here.