Module 3 · The cloud, on the free tier Lesson 9 of 15

Monitoring, costs and what to put on the resume

Worked example

Setting a spending alert at a low amount, knowing where disk usage is, and being able to say "I deployed and monitored it" separates you from candidates who only know the words.

Your practice task

Set a billing alert, check how much memory and disk your deployment uses, and write three resume bullets on what you built and what you had to fix.

Do this before moving on. Reading a solution teaches the shape of it; typing it teaches you.

Key takeaway

Cloud bills surprise people who never looked. A budget alert takes two minutes to configure and is the single most useful thing a beginner can do on any cloud account.

Almost there

15 lessons left of 15

Finish every lesson to unlock the certificate. Each one ends in a practice task — do them and the final project brief writes itself.