Costs and usage management

Documentation and resources for managing costs and usage across Google Cloud products and services.

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Read documentation and Cloud Architecture Center articles about costs and usage management products, capabilities, and procedures.
Plan with best practices to optimize the cost of workloads.
Learn about cost management tools that help you track and understand your Google Cloud spending, pay your bill, and optimize your costs.
Get at-a-glance and user-configurable views of your cost history, current cost trends, and forecasted costs with intuitive reports.

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Get best practices for monitoring, controlling, and optimizing your costs with Google Cloud's cost management tools.
Study Google Cloud billing and cost management essentials for those in a Finance and/or IT related role.
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Costs and usage products by use case

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Track your Google Cloud costs, analyze your billing data, control and optimize your costs, and take advantage of committed use discounts.

Learn about cost management tools that help you track and understand your Google Cloud spending, pay your bill, and optimize your costs.
Committed use discounts (CUDs) provide discounted prices in exchange for your commitment to use a minimum level of resources for a specified term.
This article describes the components of the Google Cloud Free Program.
Monitor and communicate your current savings, explore new recommended opportunities to optimize costs, and plan your optimization goals.
Get answers to questions 'Which Google Cloud services cost the most last month?'
Use the CUD reports to analyze the effectiveness of your discounts.
Use budgets to track your actual Google Cloud costs against your planned costs and receive spending alerts.
Use programmatic budget notifications to automate your cost control response based on the budget notification.

Optimize your Google Cloud resource usage and increase efficiency.

Monitor quota usage, create and modify quota alerts, and request quota adjustments for all of your Google Cloud services.
View and manage the quota restrictions that are applicable to the Google Cloud resources that you use.
Plan using best practices for running cost-optimized applications on GKE to take advantage of the elasticity provided by Google Cloud.

Measure, report, and reduce your Cloud carbon emissions.

Display gross greenhouse gas emissions from electricity associated with the usage of covered Google Cloud services.
Review the calculation methodology that Google Cloud uses to give our customers a report tailored to their specific gross carbon footprint.
Learn how to export your Carbon Footprint data to BigQuery or Sheets in order to perform data analysis and create custom dashboards and reports.