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Cost Management
Tools for monitoring, controlling, and optimizing your costs.
Gain visibility into your current cost trends and forecasts
Drive clear accountability for costs across your organization
Control your costs with strong financial governance policies and permissions
Optimize your cloud costs and usage with intelligent recommendations
Benefits
Organize resources and understand your costs
Organize resources and understand your costs
Drive accountability for costs across your organization, and better understand your return on cloud investments with flexible options for organizing resources and allocating costs to departments and teams.
Take control of your costs
Take control of your costs
Control your costs and reduce the risk of overspending with strong financial governance policies and permissions that make it easy to control who can do the spending and view costs across your organization.
Optimize spending and savings
Optimize spending and savings
Stay smart about your spending with intelligent recommendations tailored to your business that help optimize usage, save time on management, and minimize costs.
Key features
A path to more predictable cloud costs
Resource hierarchy and access controls
Structure and organize yourresource hierarchy for fine-grained management and cost allocation using organizations, folders, projects, and labels. Enforce organizational policies with granularpermissions at different levels in the resource hierarchy to control who can spend and who has administrative and cost-viewing permissions.
Reports, dashboards, budgets, and alerts
Get at-a-glance views of your current cost trends and forecasts withintuitive reports in theGoogle Cloud console andset budgets to closely monitor your costs and alert stakeholders through email orPub/Sub when exceeding defined budget thresholds. Createcustom dashboards for your teams withLooker Studio.
Recommendations
Viewintelligent recommendations for optimizing your costs and usage. Easily apply these changes for immediate cost savings and greater efficiency.
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Google’s Financial Operations team will work with customers to create the structure of their FinOps team and outline the roles and responsibilities for each member. We work with IT, finance, and business areas to enable a cost-conscious culture across your organization.
Google’s FinOps experts will co-create a RACI model and the key process flows necessary to create and operationalize your FinOps team for success.Contact sales to get started or learn more about our entireconsulting portfolio.
Customers
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All features
Cost Management features
| Reports and dashboards | Get at-a-glance views of your current cost trends and forecasts withintuitive reports in theGoogle Cloud console. Createcustom dashboards for your teams withLooker Studio. |
| Resource hierarchy | Structure and organize yourresource hierarchy for fine-grained management and cost allocation using organizations, folders, projects, and labels. |
| Billing access control | Enforce organizational policies with granularpermissions at different levels in the resource hierarchy to control who can spend and who has administrative and cost-viewing permissions. |
| Budgets and alerts | Set budgets to closely monitor your costs and alert stakeholders through email orPub/Sub when exceeding defined budget thresholds. |
| Automated budget actions | Configure automated actions usingprogrammatic budget notifications to throttle resources and cap costs to prevent unexpected activity from affecting your budgeted cloud spend. |
| Billing export | Export detailed usage, cost, and pricing data automatically toBigQuery so that you can useLooker Studio or your preferred analytics tool for further cost analysis. |
| Recommendations | Viewintelligent recommendations for optimizing your costs and usage. Easily apply these changes for immediate cost savings and greater efficiency. |
| Billing APIs | Programmatically access and manage your billing accounts withBilling APIs. |
| Quotas | Setquota limits to proactively control your spend rate and prevent unforeseen spikes in usage. |
Pricing
Cost Management pricing
Cost Management tools and 24/7billing support are offered at no additional charge for Google Cloud customers. You will be charged only for use of Google Cloud services, such as BigQuery, Pub/Sub, Cloud Functions, and Cloud Storage. For information on the pricing of Google Cloud services, see theGoogle Cloud Pricing Calculator.
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