Managing Billing

Question 1

Can you have multiple billing accounts?

Answer 1

Yes. You can have different billing accounts for different projects. In the GUI.

Question 2

What can you control in the Billing Budgets and Alerts?

Answer 2

Scope. Amount. Actions/Alerts (There is an API that allows you to work with this also.)

Question 3

How can you constrain spending?

Answer 3

IAM - Organization Policies.

Question 4

Billing BigQuery Export

Answer 4

Takes every metric on cost calculation and moves it to a dataset that can be BigQueried. In conjunction with API. Disabled by default. Edit Settings. Choose product to export information for. Go to BigQuery. Click on Project. Create Dataset. Never Delete. Google Manage Key for encryption. (Does not interfere from any reporting you already can track.)