Exploring your GCP costs with Billing reports

An unnamed presenter demonstrates narrowing total cloud cost into trends and actionable project, product, and SKU drivers. The report UI, fields, forecast, filters, credits, and discount behavior shown are from 2019; use current Billing documentation for operational decisions.

Key Points Covered

• Cost investigation starts with total spend, its trend, and the dimensions driving it. [00:00:00]
• The historical report compares periods, forecasts the month, groups by project, and offers an invoice-month view. [00:01:04]
• Region and credit filters plus project, product, and SKU drill-down help isolate a spike. [00:02:06]-[00:03:09]
• Clear resource naming helps connect a billing dimension to a workload or owner. [00:03:09]
• The presenter distinguishes exploratory reports from invoice-oriented cost breakdown. [00:03:09]-[00:04:13]

Full video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jRb8piwa2GI(opens in a new tab)