Certified: Google Cloud Digital Leader Audio Course

Episode 64 — Products That Help You Meet Sustainability Goals

19 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Google Cloud provides products and analytics tools designed to operationalize sustainability, turning ambition into measurable progress. This episode ...

Episode 63 — Sustainability Commitments and Strategy

19 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Sustainability is both an ethical and operational priority for Google Cloud, and understanding its strategy is essential for exam readiness. This epis...

Episode 62 — Google Cloud Customer Care: How Support Works

19 Oct 2025

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Customer Care in Google Cloud represents more than a help desk—it’s a structured support model designed to ensure reliability, trust, and business...

Episode 61 — SRE, DevOps, and Key Reliability Terms

19 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Site Reliability Engineering, known as SRE, and DevOps share the goal of delivering reliable, scalable, and continuously improving systems. This episo...

Episode 60 — Reliability and Resilience at Scale

19 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Reliability and resilience define the ability of systems to perform consistently under varying conditions. This episode examines how Google Cloud achi...

Episode 59 — Resource Hierarchy for Access and Control

19 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Google Cloud organizes resources through a structured hierarchy—organizations, folders, projects, and resources—that enables scalable access contr...

Episode 58 — Cost Management Terms and Dashboards

19 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Understanding cloud financial metrics is essential for both operational success and exam readiness. This episode unpacks Google Cloud’s cost managem...

Episode 57 — Financial Governance: Budgets and Quotas

19 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Financial governance ensures that cloud spending remains aligned with business strategy, preventing unexpected costs while enabling innovation. This e...

Episode 56 — Compliance Resources and Reports

19 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Compliance is a continuous commitment, not a single event, and Google Cloud provides extensive resources to help organizations maintain it. This episo...

Episode 55 — Data Sovereignty and Residency

19 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Data sovereignty and residency define where information is stored and which laws govern its access—critical issues for global organizations using th...

Episode 54 — Trust, Transparency, and Compliance on GCP

19 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Trust and transparency form the foundation of Google Cloud’s compliance strategy. This episode explains how Google Cloud demonstrates accountability...

Episode 53 — SecOps in the Cloud: Concepts and Value

19 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Security Operations, or SecOps, unites people, processes, and technology to detect, investigate, and respond to threats. This episode explores how Sec...

Episode 52 — Protecting Networks with Cloud Armor

19 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Google Cloud Armor provides enterprise-grade protection against distributed denial-of-service, or DDOS, attacks and application-level threats. This ep...

Episode 51 — Authn, Authz, IAM, and 2-Step Verification

19 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Authentication, authorization, and identity management form the backbone of secure cloud operations. This episode clarifies how these components inter...

Episode 50 — Google’s Trusted Infrastructure and Encryption

19 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

At the foundation of Google Cloud’s security model lies its trusted infrastructure, engineered to protect data across every layer—from hardware to...

Episode 49 — Security Basics: Threats and Cloud Model

19 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Security remains the top priority in cloud computing, and understanding its foundational principles is vital for the Google Cloud Digital Leader exam....

Episode 48 — GKE Enterprise for Hybrid Control

19 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

GKE Enterprise extends Google Kubernetes Engine into hybrid and multicloud environments, providing a unified platform for managing containerized workl...

Episode 47 — Hybrid and Multicloud: When and Why

19 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Enterprises increasingly rely on hybrid and multicloud strategies to balance flexibility, compliance, and risk. This episode explains when and why org...

Episode 46 — Apigee Overview for Leaders

19 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Apigee is Google Cloud’s enterprise-grade platform for managing and securing Application Programming Interfaces, or API s. This episode explains Api...

Episode 45 — API s as Products: Monetize and Manage

19 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Application Programming Interfaces, or API s, are more than technical connectors—they are strategic products that enable ecosystem growth. This epis...

Episode 44 — Deploying Containers with GKE and Cloud Run

19 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Google Kubernetes Engine, known as GKE, and Cloud Run represent two leading ways to deploy containers on Google Cloud. This episode explains their rol...

Episode 43 — Containers vs VMs and When to Use Each

19 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Containers and virtual machines both isolate workloads but differ in architecture and operational efficiency. This episode explains those differences,...

Episode 42 — Serverless on GCP: Cloud Run, App Engine, Functions

19 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Serverless computing allows organizations to focus on application logic without managing infrastructure. This episode introduces Google Cloud’s serv...

Episode 41 — Compute Engine for Traditional Workloads

19 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Compute Engine delivers flexible virtual machines that replicate familiar on-prem environments while benefiting from cloud scalability and reliability...

Episode 40 — VMs, Containers, Microservices, Serverless

19 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

The evolution from virtual machines to containers, microservices, and serverless computing represents the progression toward greater efficiency and au...

Episode 39 — Compute on Google Cloud: The Choices

19 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Compute is the foundation of all digital workloads, and Google Cloud offers several options designed for flexibility and performance. This episode exp...

Episode 38 — Migration Terms: Rehost to Reimagine

19 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Cloud migration involves several strategic approaches that determine how workloads move and evolve. This episode defines the major migration patterns—...

Episode 37 — Why Modernize: Infra and App Journeys

19 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Modernization represents the process of evolving infrastructure and applications to meet today’s demands for performance, scalability, and agility. ...

Episode 36 — BigQuery ML: Models with SQL

19 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

BigQuery ML extends Google’s analytics platform by allowing users to create and execute machine learning models directly within BigQuery using stand...

Episode 35 — Vertex AI and TensorFlow at a Glance

19 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Vertex AI is Google Cloud’s unified platform for building, deploying, and managing machine learning models. This episode provides an overview of its...

Episode 34 — Auto ML: Custom Models Without Code

19 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Auto ML represents Google Cloud’s approach to simplifying machine learning through automation. This episode explains how Auto ML enables users to bu...

Episode 33 — Pre-Trained APIs: Vision, Language, Speech

19 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Pre-trained API s allow organizations to apply advanced artificial intelligence without building models from scratch. This episode introduces Google C...

Episode 32 — Choosing Google’s AI / ML Options

19 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Google Cloud provides a spectrum of tools for artificial intelligence and machine learning that suit varying skill levels and project goals. This epis...

Episode 31 — Responsible and Explainable

19 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Artificial intelligence delivers immense potential, but its deployment must be grounded in responsibility and transparency. This episode focuses on re...

Episode 30 — ML Use Cases and Business Impact

19 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Machine learning, often abbreviated as ML, allows systems to identify patterns and make predictions without explicit programming. This episode examine...

Episode 29 — AI vs Analytics: What’s the Difference

19 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Artificial intelligence and analytics often appear together in cloud discussions, but they serve distinct purposes. This episode clarifies those diffe...

Episode 28 — Streaming Analytics with Pub/Sub + Dataflow

19 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Modern organizations increasingly rely on real-time data rather than static reports. This episode explores how Google Cloud’s Pub/Sub and Dataflow s...

Episode 27 — Looker Basics: From Query to Dashboard

19 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Looker is Google Cloud’s enterprise platform for data exploration and business intelligence. This episode introduces how Looker transforms queries i...

Episode 26 — Making Data Useful: B I and Analytics

19 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Business intelligence, or B I, converts raw data into meaningful insights that guide strategic decisions. This episode explains how analytics tools an...

Episode 25 — Database Migration and Modernization Paths

19 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Modernizing databases in the cloud is more than a technical upgrade—it’s a strategic initiative that supports scalability, analytics, and innovati...

Episode 24 — Cloud Storage Classes and Cost Strategy

19 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Cloud Storage is the foundation of Google Cloud’s object storage system, offering multiple classes to optimize cost and performance. This episode ex...

Episode 23 — BigQuery Fundamentals and Use Cases

19 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

BigQuery serves as Google Cloud’s fully managed, serverless data warehouse designed to analyze massive datasets quickly and cost-effectively. This e...

Episode 22 — Picking the Right Data Store on GCP

19 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Selecting the correct storage service is essential for balancing performance, scalability, and cost. This episode focuses on how to choose among Googl...

Episode 21 — Data Governance Essentials

19 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Data governance defines the framework through which organizations manage the availability, usability, integrity, and security of their data assets. Th...

Episode 20 — Unlocking Value in Unstructured Data

19 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Unstructured data—text, images, audio, and video—represents most of the world’s digital information, yet it often remains underutilized. This ep...

Episode 19 — Data Warehouses vs Lakes vs Databases

19 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Cloud environments provide multiple ways to store and process data, each optimized for specific use cases. This episode clarifies the distinctions bet...

Episode 18 — The Value of Data in the Business

19 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Data has evolved from a byproduct of operations into a primary business asset. This episode explores why understanding data’s strategic value is ess...

Episode 17 — Shared Responsibility: Who Does What

19 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

The shared responsibility model defines how security and management duties are divided between a cloud provider and the customer. This principle appea...

Episode 16 — IaaS, PaaS, SaaS: What to Use When

19 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Understanding service models is central to both cloud strategy and the Google Cloud Digital Leader exam. This episode breaks down Infrastructure as a ...

Episode 15 — Global Infra 101: Regions, Zones, Network

19 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

At the foundation of Google Cloud lies a vast global infrastructure designed for reliability, speed, and scalability. This episode introduces the phys...

Episode 14 — Choosing Private, Hybrid, or Multicloud

19 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Choosing the right cloud deployment model is a strategic decision influenced by security, compliance, performance, and governance requirements. This e...

Episode 13 — CapEx to OpEx: Financial Shifts

19 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Cloud adoption transforms how organizations handle financial planning by shifting from capital expenditure, or CapEx, to operational expenditure, or O...

Episode 12 — Core Cloud Concepts: Flexibility to TCO

19 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

This episode introduces the foundational ideas that define cloud computing from a business perspective: flexibility, scalability, performance, and tot...

Episode 11 — The “Transformation Cloud” Explained

19 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

The concept of the “transformation cloud” reflects Google Cloud’s philosophy that cloud computing is not merely about hosting workloads but abou...

Episode 10 — Digital Transformation Drivers and Risks

19 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Digital transformation refers to integrating digital technologies into every area of business, changing how organizations operate and deliver value. T...

Episode 9 — Google Cloud’s Business Value Pillars

19 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

The Google Cloud Digital Leader exam emphasizes understanding Google’s unique value pillars—security, sustainability, scalability, innovation, and...

Episode 8 — Cloud Models: Public, Private, Hybrid, Multi

19 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Cloud models differ by ownership, control, and integration patterns, and understanding these distinctions is crucial for exam success. Public cloud re...

Episode 7 — Cloud Benefits: Scale, Agility, Cost

19 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode, we unpack the three core benefits that define modern cloud computing: scalability, agility, and cost optimization. Scalability allows...

Episode 6 — Cloud vs On-Prem: Business Trade-offs

19 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

This episode examines the trade-offs between traditional on-premises infrastructure and cloud-based models through a business and strategic lens. In a...

Episode 5 — Why Cloud Is Transforming Business

19 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Cloud computing represents a shift in how organizations approach technology, cost management, and innovation. This episode explains why the cloud mode...

Episode 4 — Test Day Game Plan and Mindset

19 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Preparation leads up to one critical moment: test day. This episode focuses on how to approach the exam environment, manage time effectively, and main...

Episode 3 — Study Plan, Resources, and Milestones

19 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Building an organized study plan is the foundation for success on the Google Cloud Digital Leader exam. This episode outlines how to approach preparat...

Episode 2 — Exam Scope, Domains, and Weighting

19 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

This episode explains how the Google Cloud Digital Leader exam is organized, providing a roadmap for focused and efficient preparation. The assessment...

Episode 1 — What This Certification Proves

19 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

The Google Cloud Digital Leader certification is designed to demonstrate an individual’s ability to articulate the value of cloud technologies and t...

Welcome to Google Cloud Digital Leader Audio Course

19 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas