Posts from Sneha Farkya
Optimising Compute Engine Cost by Scheduling VMs
Google Cloud’s most widely used service is Compute Engine, which is an Infrastructure as a Service offering provided by Google Cloud Platform. It is a general-purpose, flexible, highly scalable virtual machine. There are many types and sizes of compute engines. Compute Engine offers a wide range of options from general purpose machines to resource-specific optimised […]
How to Create and Manage Custom Roles in GCP
In Google Cloud, Identity and Access Management (IAM) allows the administrator to authorize the use of specific resources. With IAM, you can adopt the security principle of least privilege, which gives only the required permissions. You can manage resources by deciding who(identity) and what access(role) can be given to the organization or owner. A role […]
How to Create and Manage Google Cloud Billing Account
What is a Billing Account in GCP? The first step toward the proper payment of resources for Google Cloud is setting up a billing account and payment profile with the correct permissions. While some Google Cloud services provide free tiers, many services will cost for their usage. A single Google Cloud Platform billing account can […]
How to Create Storage Buckets on Google Cloud Storage
Introduction Google Cloud Storage provides a static storage facility for storing and accessing objects on the Google Cloud Platform. An object is any kind of data, whether it is a file, image, video, etc. This system is infinitely scalable and can handle any size of data you produce. Let’s understand the concept in detail. What […]
How to Reopen a Closed Google Cloud Billing account
Google Cloud Platform is a suite of services that includes everything from tools and APIs to infrastructure like Compute engine. These services are infrastructures that Google built around the globe across many regions and zones. To access these resources, the user requires an Cloud Billing account. A cloud billing account is an organization-level resource managed […]
Managing Cloud Costs with Budget and alerts on Google Cloud
Before diving into setting up your budget alerts and limits, you must first know about billing accounts. Customers use the billing account to roll several invoices into one, which is repaid later. Cloud Projects at the highest level make up your billing account. A billing account must be associated with a project that generates costs. […]
Export Google Cloud billing data to CSV – The Easy method
To get started with Google Cloud, you need to have a Billing account. A billing account can be associated with multiple projects. All the resources and services that are used in a project are paid by the Billing account linked to that project, in a single currency. If the billing account is not linked, you […]