What is Billing account in GCP?
A Google Cloud Billing account 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. Show
A Google Cloud Billing account is connected to a DoiT International billing profile. This page explains how to create a Google Cloud Billing account directly from the Cloud Management Platform (CMP) and link it to your company's billing profile. note Required Permissions: Assets Manager Your user account must be linked to at least one billing profile in the CMP. To create a new Cloud Billing account:
info Your domain is added as a Billing Account User on the new Billing Accounts, which allows anyone from the same domain to link GCP projects to the new billing account. Add or remove billing administratorsnote You can add or remove billing administrators from the CMP only if you are an incumbent billing account administrator. To manage billing account administrators:
Use the Google Cloud consoleYou can open the Manage billing accounts page in the Google Cloud console directly from the CMP, using either of the following approaches:
Cloud Billing IAM Roles
Budgets and Budgets Alerts
Cloud Billing Export
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ReferencesGoogle_Cloud_Billing What is a billing account?Billing accounts represent the organization that you're charging for products and services sold. Sometimes, businesses may use one account for quoting and ordering, and a different account to receive and pay invoices.
What is billing in GCP?A Cloud Billing account defines who pays for a given set of Google Cloud resources. To use Google Cloud services, you must have a valid Cloud Billing account, and must link it to your Google Cloud projects. Your project's Google Cloud usage is charged to the linked Cloud Billing account.
What is the role of billing account user in billing overview?The Billing Account User role gives the service account the permissions to enable billing (associate projects with the organization's billing account for all projects in the organization) and thereby permit the service account to enable APIs that require billing to be enabled.
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