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One of the biggest challenges organisations face when adopting the cloud is understanding and controlling costs. Unlike on-premises infrastructure where costs are largely fixed and predictable, cloud spending is variable — it scales with usage. Google Cloud provides a comprehensive set of tools to help you estimate, monitor, analyse, and optimise your cloud spending.
GCP uses a pay-as-you-go model: you pay for the resources you consume, measured by the second, hour, GB, transaction, or other unit depending on the service.
GCP billing is organised around several key concepts:
| Concept | Description |
|---|---|
| Billing account | The entity that pays for GCP usage. Contains payment information and is linked to one or more projects |
| Project | The fundamental unit of resource organisation. Each project is linked to exactly one billing account |
| Invoice / Statement | A monthly summary of charges for all projects linked to a billing account |
| Labels | Key-value pairs attached to resources for cost allocation and filtering |
| Budgets | Spending thresholds with alerts to help you track and control costs |
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