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Google Cloud Platform Administration

You're reading from   Google Cloud Platform Administration Design highly available, scalable, and secure cloud solutions on GCP

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Product type Paperback
Published in Sep 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788624350
Length 230 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Ranjit Singh Thakurratan Ranjit Singh Thakurratan
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Preface 1. Introduction to Google Cloud Platform FREE CHAPTER 2. Google Cloud Platform Compute 3. Google Cloud Platform Storage 4. Google Cloud Platform Networking 5. Google Cloud Platform Containers 6. Google Cloud Platform Operations 7. Google Cloud Platform Identity and Security 8. Google Cloud Platform Billing 9. Google Cloud Platform Tools 10. Other Books You May Enjoy

Billing concepts

GCP offers flexible ways to set up and manage billing for your resources. A billing account is how a user pays for the resources being consumed. A billing account is associated with a method of payment and access is established using Cloud IAM roles. For a resource to be deployed in a project, the project has to be associated with a billing account. More than one project can be associated with a billing account.

GCP offers two types of billing accounts:

  • Self-served: This type of billing account serves well for small deployments where the payment method is a debit/credit card or by using a bank account. You will be billed automatically and these types of accounts can be created at any time. Typically, a demo environment uses such accounts.
  • Invoiced: This type of account is where payments can be made by check and invoices are generated and mailed to the user. Invoiced...
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