Stage 1 · Lesson 2 of 7
Cloud Billing accounts and projects
On Google Cloud, resources live in , and each project is linked to one Cloud Billing account that pays for it. One billing account can pay for many projects, and projects can sit in folders under an organisation. , budgets and the all work at the billing account level, with project, folder and label as the main ways to slice.
Spend-based are bought on the billing account and apply across its projects.
Common traplinking unrelated work to one project, because the project is the cleanest cost boundary you have and labels are a weaker second.
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Resources for this stage
Start with· follow one of these
- CourseFreeIntroduction to FinOps (free course)
FinOps Foundation · Beginner
Free: the FinOps Foundation's own first course, so you start with the right picture of what FinOps is
- CourseFreeGoogle Cloud cost management courses (Google Skills)
Google Cloud · Beginner
Start "Understand Your Google Cloud Costs": billing accounts, invoices and resource organisation