Google Cloud AlloyDB: Design & Operate Databases

Build practical skills to design, optimize, and manage high-performance relational databases using Google Cloud AlloyDB. This course introduces AlloyDB fundamentals, including its PostgreSQL compatibility and support for hybrid transactional and analytical processing (HTAP) workloads. You will learn how to analyze database capacity and usage patterns, design highly available and resilient database architectures, and implement secure connectivity and access management strategies. The course also covers monitoring, troubleshooting, and backup and recovery techniques to ensure database reliability and operational continuity. In addition, you will explore how to optimize database cost and performance, automate database operations, and design data migration strategies for moving workloads to AlloyDB. Through hands-on demonstrations, you will evaluate machine configurations, compare deployment strategies, monitor database metrics, and perform backup and restore operations. By the end of this course, you will be able to design, deploy, and manage production-ready AlloyDB databases using Google Cloud best practices. Who should take this course? Cloud engineers, database administrators, DevOps professionals, developers, and solution architects working with relational databases and cloud-native applications.