We have spent time learning and understanding the different aspects of the Google cloud platform. In this chapter, we will provide a high-level overview of GCP billing. We begin this chapter with some billing concepts and learn to manage billing. We will briefly discuss how to analyze a billing cycle, set up a budget, and also set up billing alerts. This will be a short chapter with a focus on some basic billing features.

In this chapter, we will cover the following:

• Billing concepts
• Managing billing
• Analyzing a billing account
• Setting up a budget and alerts