(GCP)Billing

by Dongsoo Kim

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Posted on December 17, 2022

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Understanding BillingReports

• Get at-a-glance and user-configurable views of

1. cost history
2. current cost trends
3. forecasted costs

Billing Accounts

A billing account defines who pays for Google Cloud resources that are consumed. 1 or more projects can be linked to this account.

Reports

• chart the plots usage costs for all projects linked to a billing account including forecasted costs
• Related permissions (permissions section of the Reports documentation)(reports-permissions-documentation-external)
• chart also contains “Cost trend line (the dotted line)” when you selected time period includes the future.

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