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Costs and usage management overview

Manage costs and usage across Google Cloud products and services.

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Explore costs and usage management in Google Cloud

Read documentation and Cloud Architecture Center articles about costs and usage management products, capabilities, and procedures.

Architecture framework: cost optimization

Plan with best practices to optimize the cost of workloads.open_in_new

Cloud Billing overview

Learn about cost management tools that help you track and understand your Google Cloud spending, pay your bill, and optimize your costs.

Cloud Billing reports

Get at-a-glance and user-configurable views of your cost history, current cost trends, and forecasted costs with intuitive reports.

Training, blog articles, and more

Go to training courses, blog articles, and other related resources.

Cost management with Google Cloud

Get best practices for monitoring, controlling, and optimizing your costs with Google Cloud's cost management tools.open_in_new

Optimize your Google Cloud costs

Study Google Cloud billing and cost management essentials for those in a Finance and/or IT related role.open_in_new

Exploring cost-optimization for Google Kubernetes Engine virtual machines

Study optimization of your cluster's infrastructure to help save costs and create a more efficient architecture for your applications.open_in_new

A tour of Google Cloud sustainability

Study why Google Cloud is the cleanest cloud in the industry by exploring and utilizing sustainability tools.open_in_new

Costs and usage management products by use case

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Monitor and optimize costs

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

Cloud Billing

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

Committed use discounts (CUDs) provide discounted prices in exchange for your commitment to use a minimum level of resources for a specified term.

Free cloud features and trial offer

This article describes the components of the Google Cloud Free Program.

Optimize costs with FinOps hub

Monitor and communicate your current savings, explore new recommended opportunities to optimize costs, and plan your optimization goals.

View your billing reports and cost trends

Get answers to questions 'Which Google Cloud services cost the most last month?'

View your committed use discount (CUD) reports

Use the CUD reports to analyze the effectiveness of your discounts.

Track costs with budgets

Use budgets to track your actual Google Cloud costs against your planned costs and receive spending alerts.

Use budgets to automate cost control responses

Use programmatic budget notifications to automate your cost control response based on the budget notification.

Manage resources and usage

Optimize your Google Cloud resource usage and increase efficiency.

Cloud Quotas

Monitor quota usage, create and modify quota alerts, and request quota adjustments for all of your Google Cloud services.

Understand quota values and system limits

Learn about tools you can use to monitor your usage of Google Cloud resources, create alerts, and request quota adjustments.

Administer quotas

View and manage the quota restrictions that are applicable to the Google Cloud resources that you use.

Best practices for running cost-optimized Kubernetes applications on GKE

Plan using best practices for running cost-optimized applications on GKE to take advantage of the elasticity provided by Google Cloud.open_in_new

Sustainability

Measure, report, and reduce your Cloud carbon emissions.