Creating your GCP account and project
The first step to start using GCP is the creation of a new GCP account and a new project. A project is a container of multiple GCP resources, and it is usually accessed by users through their accounts. Examples of GCP resources include Google Compute Engine VMs, Google Cloud Storage buckets, App Engine instances, and BigQuery datasets. A GCP project is also linked to a billing account to which all of the costs of services consumption are charged. GCP objects can be organized hierarchically. Projects are the first level of the hierarchy and can be grouped into folders. Each folder can have another folder or an organization node as a parent. The organization is at the top of the GCP hierarchy and cannot have a parent.
In the following diagram, you can see a hierarchy composed of an organization node, two main folders, and two nested folders linked to three different GCP projects: