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Discover your learning path

Explore role-based learning paths, skill badges and certifications. Invest in your learning through Innovators Plus and discover more about team training opportunities.

Learn by role

Develop your cloud career by role

  • API Developer
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API Developer

An API Developer designs, builds, and maintains API proxies. Their work can involve multiple areas including authentication, authorization, monitoring, logging, governance, or documentation.

This learning path for API Developers includes a combination of on-demand courses to watch and hands-on learning to complete and earn Google Cloud skill badges.

What you will learn

  • Developing and designing APIs with Google Cloud’s Apigee API Platform
  • Developer and secure APIs with Apigee X
  • Deploy and manage Apigee X

Skill badges and certifications

Progress your cloud career

Earn skill badges

Skill badges earned exclusively on Google Cloud Skills Boost, are digital credentials that demonstrate an individual’s skills in the latest, in-demand cloud technologies needed by organizations.

Google Cloud certifications

Foundational certification
This certification is for anyone who wishes to demonstrate their knowledge of cloud capabilities and how Google Cloud products and services can be used to achieve an organization’s digital transformation goals.
Associate certification
This certification is for technical individuals, with experience deploying Google Cloud applications, monitoring operations, and managing cloud enterprise solutions.
Professional certification
These certifications are for experienced technical individuals who have in-depth, hands-on experience configuring Google Cloud environments for an organization, and deploying services and solutions based on business requirements.

Invest in a learning subscription

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Make the most of great savings available through Innovators Plus

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Designed for developers and technical practitioners, Innovators Plus provides the best of Google Cloud skill building at significant savings for $299/year.

Through this annual subscription, you can save up to 80% on the retail value of the benefits included in Innovators Plus, and advance your cloud career today.

Benefits include*

  • Access to over 700 hands-on labs, skill badges, and courses
  • $500 Google Cloud credits
  • A Google Cloud certification voucher
  • Bonus $500 credits after the first certification earned each year
  • Live learning events led by Google Cloud experts
  • Quarterly technical briefings hosted by Google Cloud executives
  • 1:1 consultations with Google Cloud experts

* Benefit redemption subject to limitations.

Training for teams

Upskill your team

Discover how our customers are transforming their teams with Google Cloud training and certification.
How HSBC is upskilling at scale with Google Cloud
HSBC has proactively been instilling a culture of learning in their technical teams since 2018. They partnered with Google Cloud to scale training programs to every level of their global organization, empowering thousands with cloud knowledge and skills.
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How HSBC is upskilling at scale with Google Cloud
HSBC has proactively been instilling a culture of learning in their technical teams since 2018. They partnered with Google Cloud to scale training programs to every level of their global organization, empowering thousands with cloud knowledge and skills.
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Samsung upskills their Big Data team to transform their business
Samsung worked with Google Cloud to develop a customized learning curriculum to upskill their big data team, through on-demand training and hackathons using Vertex AI, BigQuery, and BigQuery ML.
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Wayfair trains their ML and data engineers, and application developers with Google Cloud
When Wayfair migrated all their data centers to Google Cloud, this business transformation required an enterprise-wide upskilling initiative for the data engineers, ML engineers and application developers.
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To develop a learning plan for your team, purchase team training, or get your team certified, contact us to discover more.

Google Cloud basics

Explore the Basics with Google Cloud

Learn how cloud computing solves issues by offering scalable and on-demand services. Learn about the types and benefits of Google Cloud. Learn more.

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Learn how data lakes store, process, and secure large amounts of data. Learn more.

Learn how virtual machines (VM) run programs and operating systems, store data, connect to networks, and more. Learn more.

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