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Google Cloud Platform for Developers

You're reading from   Google Cloud Platform for Developers Build highly scalable cloud solutions with the power of Google Cloud Platform

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jul 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788837675
Length 506 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Ted Hunter Ted Hunter
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Steven Porter Steven Porter
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Preface 1. Why GCP? FREE CHAPTER 2. The Google Cloud Console 3. APIs, CLIs, IAM, and Billing 4. Google App Engine 5. Google Kubernetes Engine 6. Google Cloud Functions 7. Google Compute Engine 8. NoSQL with Datastore and Bigtable 9. Relational Data with Cloud SQL and Cloud Spanner 10. Google Cloud Storage 11. Stackdriver 12. Change Management 13. GCP Networking for Developers 14. Messaging with Pub/Sub and IoT Core 15. Integrating with Big Data Solutions on GCP 16. Other Books You May Enjoy

Billing on Google Cloud

One of the biggest draws for many GCP customers is Google's competitive pricing models. Google Cloud Platform boasts a flexible billing system capable of meeting the needs of several billing scenarios. From centralized billing management to control systems that ensure budgets are not exceeded, the Google Cloud billing system is designed to empower users and facilitate transparency.

As with most other aspects of GCP, billing is viewed as a resource, with full API support and integrations with Cloud IAM. All costs are measured in terms of resource usage, making it easy to perform tasks such as financial forecasting and cost-benefit analysis. Much like IAM, billing can be managed on both the project and organization level. For large enterprises, this makes it possible to centralize billing and delegate payment management to a dedicated billing team.

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