Next steps
Pick where to go once your account is ready: build your first resources, secure access, control costs, monitor your projects, and automate.
Your account is ready. Pick a goal to continue.
Build your first resources
Quickstart: Create a network with a subnet and a router
Create a network whose subnet reaches the internet through a router.
Quickstart: Create a Linux virtual machine
Create an instance with an SSH key pair and a public IP, and sign in to it.
Quickstart: Create a bucket and upload an object
Create a private bucket, and upload and download a file.
What is Backup Center?
Back up your volumes on a schedule with backup plans.
Secure access
Invite and manage members
Invite people to your organization with a role and a scope.
Use built-in and custom roles
Grant access on a subscription or a project.
Enforce two-factor authentication
Require every member to sign in with an authenticator app.
What is Security Groups?
Filter the traffic of your instances with rules.
Control costs
How billing works
Per-second metering, monthly invoices, and who can pay them.
Create budgets and threshold alerts
Track spend against a budget for a project or subscription, and get alerts.
Analyze spend with Cost Explorer
Group spend by service, project, region, or tag.
Quotas
Check your quotas, share them between projects, and request more.
Monitor and audit
What is Monitoring & Alerts?
Chart virtual machine metrics, and get alerts by email or webhook.
What is Activity Log?
See who changed which resource, when, and with what result.
What is Resource Explorer?
Search a project's resources in one table, with their costs.