GCP Billing

Question 1

I need to store by billing statements for long periods, what options do I have?

Answer 1

• Export to BigQuery

- Export to CloudStorage

Question 2

Do I need to be notified when a bill goes over a threshold, what options do have?

Answer 2

I can create budget and alert, this will notify me when the threshold is broken.

Question 3

What is a billing account?

Answer 3

A billing account can be assigned to a project, you can have one billing account per project. You can have multiple projects per billing account. Each billing account is billed to credit card separately.

Question 4

Can I set a billing threshold alert for a project or billing account?

Answer 4

Both

Question 5

Can I attach a billing account to a folder?

Answer 5

No, billing account attaches to a project

Question 6

I would like to analyze by billing account, what options do I have?

Answer 6

One option is to set up the export of data from the billing account to BigQuery.

Question 7

I need to be able to find what resource in my project is costing the most, I have already set up a billing account for the project, what options do I have?

Answer 7

Setup the billing account export to export to big query, then run a SQL query to get the resource costing the most?