Cloud Architecture Center
Discover reference architectures, design guidance, and best practices for building, migrating, and managing your cloud workloads.
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Design well-architected cloud topologies
Design and operate a cloud deployment that's secure, efficient, resilient, high-performing, and cost-effective.
Get started architecting on Google Cloud
Review and adopt fundamental guidance to start architecting your enterprise deployments.
Deployment archetypes
Learn about the basic archetypes for building cloud architectures, and the use cases and design considerations for each archetype: zonal, regional, multi-regional, global, hybrid, and multicloud.
Infrastructure reliability guide
Design and build infrastructure to run your workloads reliably in the cloud.
Landing zone design
Design and build a landing zone that includes identity onboarding, resource hierarchy, network design, and security controls.
Enterprise foundations blueprint
Design and build a foundation that enables consistent governance, security controls, scale, visibility, and access.
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Google Cloud certification
Demonstrate your expertise and validate your ability to transform businesses with Google Cloud technology.
Google Cloud security best practices center
Explore these best practices for meeting your security and compliance objectives as you deploy workloads on Google Cloud.
Google Cloud Migration Center
Accelerate your end-to-end migration journey from your current on-premises environment to Google Cloud.
Google Cloud partner advantage
Connect with a Google Cloud partner who can help you with your architecture needs.