What's changed: Created Cloud Digital Leader Chapter 6 (Domain 6 "Operations": financial governance and cost management = resource hierarchy (org/folder/project)/billing account/budgets and alerts/CUD-SUD/cost optimization; operational reliability and sustainability = SRE/availability-scalability/Cloud Monitoring-Cloud Logging/Carbon Footprint).
6.1Financial governance and managing cloud costs
Understand the resource hierarchy (organization, folders, projects) and billing accounts, cost visibility and control via budgets and alerts, discounts such as committed use discounts (CUD) and sustained use discounts (SUD), and the basics of cost optimization.
Because cloud is pay-as-you-go, costs rise and fall with usage. That makes financial governance (the FinOps mindset)—visualizing who uses how much and curbing waste—important. First, understand the units for managing cost: the resource hierarchy and billing.
6.1.1Resource hierarchy and billing accounts
Google Cloud resources are organized as Organization → Folder → Project → resources. A Project is the basic unit of billing, permissions, and resources, and costs are tracked per project. Costs are paid via a Billing Account linked to projects. Because IAM policies and organization policies are inherited down this hierarchy, you can apply consistent governance organization-wide. The basics: "separate cost and permissions per project."
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