Reconcile Your Monthly GCP Invoice with BigQuery Billing Export
Behind the quest of this developer to track its expenses, you get a glimpse on cloud billing difficulties. While not explicitly pointed out, pricing cloud resources is hard and the result of quantization, granularity and rounding, between space, time and currencies.
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On GCP invoiced billing news.ycombinator.com
Invoiced billing is a B2B-friendly payment happening after the service is consumed and an invoice issued. It seems to be a pain to setup on GCP but I suspect is a consequence of trying to reduce (costly) fraud.
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CUDs vs. Commit Contracts vs. SUDs in Google Cloud 66degrees.com
Explains the differences between various types of discounts and usage commitments in GCP.
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The Challenges of Operating a Computing Cloud and Charging for its Use web.stanford.edu
Skip the first 90% of this presentation by an AWS VP (which is about general system reliability). The last four slides are a good summary of what billing cloud services entails, especially the use of soft quotas to limit fraud.
Billing › Pricing > Usage-based Pricing: “Behind the quest of this developer to track its expenses, you get a glimpse on cloud billing difficulties. While not explicitly pointed out, pricing cloud resources is hard and the result of quantization, granularity and rounding, between space, time and currencies.”