Hi and welcome. I'm Saman Javan, Lead Business Curriculum Developer at Google Cloud. Once you've stepped through the building section of the Google Cloud Console, you should have a better understanding of your GCP costs. The next step is to take advantage of the available tools to control and optimize how much you're spending on your Cloud resources so you can maximize your investment. Before we get into the details of how to use the tools though, let's cover some important points about roles and responsibilities. Moving to the Cloud introduces new complexities when it comes to managing costs. Budgeting is no longer a one-time operational process completed annually, instead spending must be monitored and controlled on an ongoing basis due to the dynamic nature of the Cloud. If you're working in a small organization, chances are you're responsible for managing all aspects of GCP finances from budgeting to procurement, tracking, optimization, and payment. In larger organizations, multiple people might be involved. The key to successfully managing and optimizing costs is establishing a partnership between finance and technology teams. We've designed this Quest to account for this partnership. First, you'll learn about what tools are available to control costs and how to setup cost controls using the Google Cloud Console. Then for those looking for a technical challenge, you can use the hands-on labs to fine tune your organization's resource consumption, so you can ensure your teams are not spending money on resources that aren't being used or not being used efficiently. If other teams within your organization manage these technical tasks, we'd still encourage you to learn about what's possible so you can share these cost optimization opportunities with your technology teams. So here's what you can expect to learn about. Creating budgets and alerts, a billing account, project and product levels, setting up quota limits to control your costs, understanding committed use discounts and how you can save money on your Compute Engine Resources, advanced tips for setting up cost controls, best practices for managing your costs, and a walk-through of the hands-on labs. Let's get started.