Welcome to Week 2. This week, we’ll focus on securing and managing access to your Google Cloud resources using Cloud IAM (Identity and Access Management). You’ll learn how IAM helps define who can take what action on which resources, giving you fine-grained control over permissions. You’ll explore context-aware access using Identity-Aware Proxy (IAP) to enable conditional access based on device, location, and identity context. We’ll also introduce Cloud Key Management Service (KMS) and Cloud Data Loss Prevention (DLP), showing how they help protect sensitive data through encryption and anonymization. Finally, you’ll explore event-driven architectures using Cloud Pub/Sub, including a demonstration on creating a Pub/Sub topic that triggers a Cloud Function. By the end of this module, you’ll be able to implement secure access controls, manage sensitive data, and build scalable messaging-based workflows in Google Cloud.

Welcome to Week 3. This week, we’ll begin with the Helicopter Racing League, exploring how low-latency streaming, real-time analytics, and scalability are achieved using GCP's networking and compute services. You’ll understand how modern media platforms are architected to deliver high-performance experiences globally. Next, we’ll dive into Mountkirk Games, a mobile gaming company looking to scale globally while ensuring minimal downtime and seamless user experiences. This case will help you understand how GCP services like App Engine, Cloud Spanner, and CI/CD pipelines support rapid, reliable game deployment across regions. Finally, we’ll examine TerramEarth, a heavy equipment manufacturing company integrating IoT telemetry with cloud analytics. This scenario demonstrates how Google Cloud supports predictive maintenance, big data processing, and machine learning at scale through services like Cloud Pub/Sub, Cloud Dataflow, and BigQuery. By the end of this module, you’ll be able to apply architectural decision-making skills to real-world scenarios, evaluate trade-offs, and align GCP services with business goals across multiple industries.