The course objectives are to discuss what the cloud is and why it is a technological and business game changer; describe the different ways a user can interact with Google Cloud; discover the different compute options in Google Cloud; implement a variety of structured and unstructured storage models; discuss the different application managed service options in the cloud; outline how security in the cloud is administered in Google Cloud; demonstrate how to build secure networks in the cloud; identify cloud automation and management tools; discover a variety of managed big data services in the cloud; and explain what machine learning is, the terminology used, and its value proposition.