Tag: Billing

Resources about Billing collected from the weekly GCP Weekly newsletter — a hand-curated collection of Google Cloud Platform news, technical articles, tutorials, videos and release notes. Each entry below links back to the original GCP Weekly issue and retains its publish date and title, giving you a focused, searchable knowledge base for this topic.

Billing DevOps Terraform Oct. 9, 2023

TIL — “Vampire Power” In Google Cloud? - How to removed a billed resource “Networking Service Directory Registered Resource", in an empty project and how to remove it.

BigQuery Billing FinOps GCP Experience Oct. 9, 2023

How to reduce your BigQuery costs? - 4 practical examples within the Modern Data Network from BlaBlaCar, Nickel, Toucan Toco and Libeo.

Billing FinOps Sept. 25, 2023

GCP Billing & Cost Management - A summary of GCP billing & cost management, related tools and some strategies.

Billing FinOps Infrastructure Sept. 18, 2023

Optimizing Costs of Google Kubernetes Engine - How we decreased 75% of our production GKE cluster costs.

BigQuery Billing Official Blog Sept. 18, 2023

Reducing BigQuery physical storage cost with new billing model - As customers scale data warehousing in the cloud with BigQuery, cost optimization becomes crucial for scalable data storage in the cloud.

Billing Compute Engine Official Blog Sept. 18, 2023

How Compute Engine future reservations can help you get the capacity you need - With future reservations, you can easily request Compute Engine capacity in advance of a planned or expected scale-up event.

Billing Official Blog Aug. 28, 2023

Keep a closer eye on Google Cloud costs with new Budgets for project users - Now, Google Cloud project users can easily create budgets and stay on top of their cloud spend, and Project Owners can receive timely alerts.

Billing Cloud Bigtable Official Blog Aug. 21, 2023

Increase your availability and maximize your Bigtable spend with committed use discounts - With new Cloud Bigtable committed use discounts, you can get up to a 40% discount on Bigtable compute capacity.

Billing Official Blog Aug. 21, 2023

Optimizing your cloud costs is even easier with Committed Use Discount recommendations - New Committed Use Discount (CUD) recommendations can help you find new cost-saving opportunities for resource-based and Flexible CUDs.

Billing Data Science GCP Experience Python Aug. 14, 2023

Taking 5 Minutes To Make These Tweaks Reduced My GCP VM Costs From $110 to $30 A Month - Understand Google Cloud Platform pricing, VM configurations and virtual environments to save > $700 a year.

Billing Official Blog Prometheus Aug. 14, 2023

Improved cost visibility and 60 percent price drop for Managed Service for Prometheus - We’ve dropped pricing for samples ingested into Managed Service for Prometheus by 60%, and improved our metrics management interface.

Billing Official Blog Aug. 14, 2023

Using Google Cloud’s new Pricing API - Now in public preview, the new Google Cloud Pricing API builds on the Catalog API and opens up multiple possibilities for pricing and cost analysis.

Billing Aug. 7, 2023

How to set hard payment/spending/cost limits for Google Cloud Platform projects - This article explains how to configure and test a hard spending limit for the Google Cloud Platform.

Billing Google Maps Platform July 31, 2023

Unexpected Google Maps API charges - How it happened, how to solve it, lessons learned.

Billing July 24, 2023

FinOps Challenges in Google Cloud Platform - This article discusses the challenges posed by financial operations in Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and provides strategies for managing expenses effectively.

Billing Cloud Functions Monitoring July 24, 2023

Streamlining GCP Budget Alerts: Introducing a New Micro Service for Slack Integration - Application that posts Budget alerts to Slack channel.

Billing Official Blog July 17, 2023

Buy or build? A Framing Up FinOps case study on advanced reporting - When UKG decided it needed to clarify the organization’s cloud costs, they formed a FinOps team and began reporting on their Google Cloud spend.

BigQuery Billing July 10, 2023

Calculating Spend for Autoscaling Reservations in BigQuery Editions - This blog post will walk through understanding your BigQuery autoscaling slot usage to determine how much is being spent on extra slots.

Billing GKE Kubernetes July 3, 2023

Reducing GKE production costs - A few tips to reduce GKE costs.

Billing GKE Official Blog July 3, 2023

Sharing the inaugural State of Kubernetes Cost Optimization report - The first ever State of Kubernetes Cost Optimization report presents large-scale quantitative research on anonymized data from Kubernetes clusters.

Billing Official Blog July 3, 2023

Unlocking cloud cost optimization: A guide to Google FinOps Resources - Simple resources for beginning your cloud FinOps journey to maximize value and ROI from your IT.

Billing June 26, 2023

GCP — small things — big savings - A few things to lower your GCP bill.

Billing Official Blog June 26, 2023

Build better budgets using folders and organizations - Your cloud resource hierarchy, and associated budgets for cost management, enable you to track and control how much you spend.

BigQuery Billing June 19, 2023

Don’t Lose Your Billing History: Preserve Historical Data during a Billing ID Change - This guide explains how to preserve your historical billing data while changing the billing ID.

BigQuery Billing Storage June 19, 2023

Estimate Your BigQuery Storage Cost - Have you been using BigQuery as a data warehouse to retrieve data using Structured Query Language (SQL)?

Billing Cloud Dataflow Official Blog June 19, 2023

A guide for understanding and optimizing your Dataflow costs - Learn how to understand your costs for Dataflow batch and streaming data processing, then learn how to evaluate and optimize your Dataflow pipelines.

BigQuery Billing Cloud Functions Document AI Official Blog Serverless June 12, 2023

From Receipts to Riches: Save Money w/ Google Cloud & Supermarket Bills - Part 2 - Upload receipts and invoices, analyze with Document AI and classify into categories to understand where the dollars are going.

Billing Official Blog June 5, 2023

FinOps from the field: How to build a FinOps roadmap - A FinOps Assessment Workshop with Google Professional Services can help answer the question of how to get started, build a plan and a roadmap.

Billing Official Blog May 22, 2023

When they go closed, we go open – Google Cloud and open billing data - Google Cloud partnered with the FinOps Foundation on FOCUS, a Linux Foundation project, to establish an open specification for cloud billing data.

Billing Monitoring May 8, 2023

Minimize Cloud Outage Risk By Proactively Monitoring Your Quotas - Protect your cloud investment from unplanned outages and costs by leveraging GCP’s Quota Monitoring Solution (QMS).

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