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Cloud Computing · Foundational

Cloud Billing Account

Google Cloud account that pays for usage of linked projects and holds budgets, alerts and billing exports.

Definition

A Cloud Billing account defines who pays for linked projects and can be self-serve (credit card) or invoiced. Billing roles control who can link projects and view costs. Features include budgets with threshold alerts and Pub/Sub notifications, cost reports, labels-based breakdowns and export of detailed billing data to BigQuery.

Example

A budget on the analytics project sends a Pub/Sub message that triggers a function to cap spending.

Exam tip

Budgets alert but do not stop spending automatically; programmatic notifications can trigger automation.

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