Is a vision of computing that defines a service provisioning model for compute services in which resources are packaged and offered on a pay per use basis?
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You can configure billing on Google Cloud in a variety of ways to meet different needs. This section introduces the core concepts for your organization and for billing, and discusses how to use them effectively. Resource OverviewWhat is a resource?In the context of Google Cloud, a resource can refer to the service-level resources that are used to process your workloads (VMs, DBs, and so on) as well as to the account-level resources that sit above the services, such as projects, folders, and the organization. What is resource management?Resource management is focused on how you should configure and grant access to the various cloud resources for your company/team, specifically the setup and organization of the account-level resources that sit above the service-level resources. Account-level resources are the resources involved in setting up and administering your Google Cloud account. Resource HierarchyGoogle Cloud resources are organized hierarchically. This hierarchy allows you to map your organization's operational structure to Google Cloud, and to manage access control and permissions for groups of related resources. The resource hierarchy provides logical attach points for access management policies (Identity and Access Management) and Organization policies. Both IAM and Organization policies are inherited through the hierarchy, and the effective policy at each node of the hierarchy is the result of policies directly applied at the node and policies inherited from its ancestors. The following diagram shows an example resource hierarchy illustrating the core account-level resources involved in administering your Google Cloud account. Domain
For more information on the hierarchy of resources, see the Resource Manager documentation. Organization
For more information on organizations, see the following documentation:
Folders
For more details about using folders, see Creating and Managing Folders. Projects
For more details about projects, see the following documentation:
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For more details about using labels, see Creating and Managing Labels. Cloud Billing account & payments profileOverviewA Cloud Billing account is set up in Google Cloud and is used to define who pays for a given set of Google Cloud resources and Google Maps Platform APIs. Access control to a Cloud Billing account is established by IAM roles. A Cloud Billing account is connected to a Google payments profile. Your Google payments profile includes a payment instrument to which costs are charged.
Cloud Billing account typesThere are two types of Cloud Billing accounts:
Payments profile typesWhen you create your payments profile, you'll be asked to specify the profile type. This information must be accurate for tax and identity verification. This setting can't be changed. When you are setting up your payments profile, make sure to choose the type that best fits how you plan to use your profile. There are two types of payments profiles:
Charging cycleThe charging cycle on your Cloud Billing account determines how and when you pay for your Google Cloud services and your use of Google Maps Platform APIs. For self-serve Cloud Billing accounts, your Google Cloud costs are charged automatically in one of two ways:
For self-serve Cloud Billing accounts, your charging cycle is automatically assigned when you create the account. You do not get to choose your charging cycle and you cannot change the charging cycle. For invoiced Cloud Billing accounts, you typically receive one invoice per month and the amount of time you have to pay your invoice (your payment terms) is determined by the agreement you made with Google.
Billing contactsA Cloud Billing account includes one or more contacts that are defined on the Google Payments profile that is connected to the Cloud Billing account. These contacts are people who are designated to receive billing information specific to the payment instrument on file (for example, when a credit card needs to be updated). To access and manage this list of contacts, you can use the Payments console or you can use the Google Cloud console. SubaccountsSubaccounts are intended for resellers. If you are a reseller, you can use subaccounts to represent your customers' charges for the purpose of chargebacks. Cloud Billing subaccounts allow you to group charges from projects together on a separate section of your invoice. A billing subaccount is a Cloud Billing account that is owned by a reseller's parent Cloud Billing account. The usage charges for all billing subacccounts are paid for by the reseller's parent Cloud Billing account. Note that the parent Cloud Billing account must be on invoiced billing. A subaccount behaves like a Cloud Billing account in most ways: it can have projects linked to it, Cloud Billing data exports can be configured on it, and it can have IAM roles defined on it. Any charges made to projects linked to the subaccount are grouped and subtotalled on the invoice, and the effect on resource management is that access control policy can be entirely segregated on the subaccount to allow for customer separation and management. The Cloud Billing Account API provides the ability to create and manage subaccounts. Use the API to connect to your existing systems and provision new customers or chargeback groups programmatically. Relationships between organizations, projects, Cloud Billing accounts, and payments profilesTwo types of relationships govern the interactions between organizations, Cloud Billing accounts, and projects: ownership and payment linkage.
The following diagram shows the relationship of ownership and payment linkages for a sample organization. In the diagram, the organization has ownership over Projects 1, 2, and 3, meaning that it is the IAM permissions parent of the three projects. The Cloud Billing account is linked to Projects 1, 2, and 3, meaning that it pays for costs incurred by the three projects. The Cloud Billing account is also linked to a Google payments profile, which stores information like name, address, and payment methods. In this example, any users who are granted IAM billing roles on the organization also have those roles on the Cloud Billing account or the projects. For more information on granting IAM billing roles, see Overview of Cloud Billing access control. Roles OverviewWhat are roles? Roles grant one or more privileges to a user that allow performing a common business function. How do roles work in Google Cloud? Google Cloud offers IAM to manage access control to your Google Cloud resources. IAM lets you control who (users) has what access (roles) to which resources by setting IAM policies. To assign permissions to a user, you use IAM policies to grant specific role(s) to a user. Roles have one or more permissions bundled within them, controlling user access to resources. You can set an IAM policy (roles) at the organization level, the folder level, the project level, or (in some cases) on the service-level resource. Policies are inherited through the hierarchy. The effective policy at each node of the hierarchy is the result of policies directly applied at the node and policies inherited from its ancestors. If you set a policy at the Organization level, it is inherited by all its child folders and projects. If you set a policy at the project level, it is inherited by all its child resources. You can enforce granular permissions at different levels in the resource hierarchy to ensure that the right individuals have the ability to spend within Google Cloud. Best Practices for Roles
Important RolesThe following diagram represents the Google Cloud resource hierarchy in complete form, and calls out the important high-access roles at each level:
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What is vision of cloud computing?The long term vision of a cloud computing is that IT services are traded as utilities in an open market without technological and legal barriers.
Why is the provision of computing services called cloud computing?Cloud computing is named as such because the information being accessed is found remotely in the cloud or a virtual space. Companies that provide cloud services enable users to store files and applications on remote servers and then access all the data via the Internet.
Which method of computing involves a pay per use model or metered services?Utility computing enables client companies to procure computing resources through an on-demand, pay-per-use billing method. Read this article to understand utility computing in detail.
What is the meaning of utility computing?Utility computing is a model in which computing resources are provided to the customer based on specific demand. The service provider charges exactly for the services provided, instead of a flat rate.
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