Cloud Billing release notes

Simulate scenarios in FinOps hub to maximize your savings from resource-based CUDs

In the FinOps hub, we added support for resource-based CUD recommendations as a starting point to simulate various usage scenarios, and customize the recommendation to purchase a CUD that maximizes your savings.

Learn about simulating scenarios for resource-based CUDs.

View and manage unexpected costs with Anomaly Detection (in preview)

You can now view and manage cost spikes that deviate from your historical spend patterns using the Anomalies dashboard (preview). Each anomaly comes with a detailed root cause analysis that identifies the top services, regions, and SKUs that contributed to the spike.

Learn more about using Anomaly Detection to manage costs.

Avoid charges for underutilized Compute Engine reservations in the FinOps hub

You can now get recommendations to modify or delete your underutilized, on-demand reservations for Compute Engine resources when you haven't consumed your specified threshold of resources for at least 7 days.

Learn about reservation recommendations
View and apply underutilized reservation recommendations

Use Gemini AI assistant to find or create Billing Reports (preview)

Gemini Cloud Assist in Cloud Billing Reports provides FinOps-focused AI assistance to create the cost reports you need to analyze your cost trends and to summarize key insights from the cost reports.

Gemini Cloud Assist in Cloud Billing Reports helps you to:

• Use saved reports: Quickly access existing reports to analyze your spending.
• Create new reports: Configure custom reports with AI assistance to get the exact data you need.
• Summarize reports: Get AI-powered summaries of your reports to quickly understand key cost trends and insights.

Enable the Gemini for Google Cloud API in a project to turn on Gemini Cloud Assist in Cloud Billing Reports.

For more information about Gemini Cloud Assist features in Cloud Billing Reports, see:

• Gemini Cloud Assist in Cloud Billing
• Set up Gemini Cloud Assist in Cloud Billing
• Analyze billing data and cost trends with Reports

The Carbon footprint dashboard in the FinOps hub now includes market-based emissions data (preview)

Scope 2 market-based emissions data (preview) for the Carbon footprint dashboard are now available in the FinOps hub. The market-based emissions metric represents purchased electricity, incorporating Google's annual renewable energy purchases. You can use the data in the Carbon footprint dashboard to optimize your cloud spend and reduce your carbon impact.

• To learn more about the methodology and the difference between location-based and market-based emission metrics, see the carbon footprint documentation.

• Learn more about the FinOps hub.

View granular cost data from Secret Manager secret usage in Cloud Billing exports to BigQuery

You can now view granular Secret Manager secret cost data in the Google Cloud Billing detailed export. Use the resource.name or resource.global_name field in the export to view and filter your detailed log bucket usage.

Review the schema of the Detailed cost data export.

Tags data for Secret Manager secret usage is available in both the Standard usage cost export and the Detailed usage cost export.

To learn more about Tags, see Tags overview. To learn about using Tags in your cost data exported to BigQuery, see about tags and query examples with tags.

Track credits for your spend-based milestone credit programs (contract pricing)

If you have a custom pricing contract, you might be enrolled in spend-based milestone credit programs, where you earn promotional credits for spending specific amounts on Google Cloud.

In the Google Cloud console, you can now track the promotional credits for your spend-based milestone programs. The promotional credits that you receive act as a payment method, and are automatically applied to your costs.

Learn about tracking spend-based milestone credits.

You can now view granular AlloyDB for PostgreSQL usage in the Cloud Billing Detailed export to BigQuery

You can now view granular AlloyDB for PostgreSQL cluster, instance, and backup data in the Google Cloud Billing detailed export. Use the resource.global_name and resource.name fields in the export to view and filter your detailed AlloyDB cluster, instance, and backup usage.

Review the schema of the Detailed cost data export.

Tags data for AlloyDB for PostgreSQL cluster, instance, and backup usage is available in both the Standard usage cost export and the Detailed usage cost export.

To learn more about Tags, see Tags overview. To learn about using Tags in your cost data exported to BigQuery, see about tags and query examples with tags.

Simulate scenarios in FinOps hub to maximize your savings from spend-based CUDs

In the FinOps hub, you can now use a spend-based CUD recommendation as a starting point to simulate various usage scenarios, and customize the recommendation to purchase a CUD that maximizes your savings.

Learn about simulating scenarios for spend-based CUDs.

View your Carbon Footprint in the FinOps hub

In the FinOps hub, you can now view the estimated greenhouse gas emissions for your Google Cloud usage by visiting the Carbon Footprint dashboard.

Learn about Carbon Footprint data.

Avoid getting charged for idle Compute Engine reservations in the FinOps hub

You can now get recommendations to modify or delete your idle, on-demand reservations for Compute Engine resources when you haven't consumed any resources for at least 7 days.

Learn about idle reservation recommendations.

You can now view granular cost data for more Google Cloud services

• You can now view granular Cloud Logging log bucket cost data in the Google Cloud Billing detailed export. Use the resource.global_name field in the export to view and filter your detailed log bucket usage.
• You can now view granular Managed Microsoft Active Directory cost data in the Google Cloud Billing detailed export. Use the resource.name or resource.global_name field in the export to view and filter your detailed domain usage.
• You can now view granular Dataproc Metastore cost data in the Google Cloud Billing detailed export. Use the resource.name or resource.global_name field in the export to view and filter your detailed service usage.
• You can now view granular Cloud Deploy cost data in the Google Cloud Billing detailed export. Use the resource.name or resource.global_name field in the export to view and filter your detailed delivery pipeline usage.
• You can now view granular Cloud Data Fusion cost data in the Google Cloud Billing detailed export. Use the resource.name or resource.global_name field in the export to view and filter your detailed instance usage.

Review the schema of the Detailed cost data export.

Generate a SQL query to BigQuery from your Cloud Billing Reports (in preview)

In the cloud console, on the Billing Reports page, you use the report settings and filters to refine the data returned to your report. If you have enabled Cloud Billing data export to BigQuery, you can analyze your exported billing data using SQL queries. In Billing Reports, you can now click a button to generate a SQL query in BigQuery that is configured to use the equivalent Billing Report settings and filters to query your exported billing data. When run against your exported billing data, the generated query returns the equivalent results in BigQuery as the results in the Billing Report.

• Learn more about Billing Reports
• Learn more about Billing data export to BigQuery
• Learn more about generating a SQL query from a billing report

Download committed use discount data as a CSV file

You can now download data about all your committed use discounts (CUD) as a flat comma-separated value (CSV) file. The CSV file includes the subscription ID for each commitment, which you can use join your CUDs data to your usage data in the BigQuery export.

Learn about downloading your CUDs data.

The Cloud Billing FinOps hub is now Generally Available

Use the FinOps hub to monitor and share your current savings, explore recommended opportunities to optimize costs, and plan your optimization goals. The FinOps hub dashboard generates recommendations based on historical usage, including recent usage and current commitments, and helps you gauge how well you're using Google Cloud tools to monitor and save costs.

Learn about using FinOps hub.

You can now view granular Bigtable usage in the Cloud Billing Detailed export to BigQuery

You can now view granular Bigtable instance cost data in the Google Cloud Billing detailed export. Use the resource.global_name field in the export to view and filter your detailed Bigtable instance usage.

Review the schema of the Detailed cost data export.

You can now view granular Memorystore for Redis usage in the Cloud Billing Detailed export to BigQuery

You can now view granular Memorystore for Redis cost data in the Google Cloud Billing detailed export. Use the resource.global_name and resource.name fields in the export to view and filter your detailed Memorystore for Redis usage.

Review the schema of the Detailed cost data export.

Tags data for Google Cloud Storage buckets is available in both the Standard usage cost export and the Detailed usage cost export.

To learn more about Tags, see Tags overview. To learn about using Tags in your cost data exported to BigQuery, see more about tags and query examples with tags.

Create your first budget with one click

You can now create your first budget and receive budget alerts in one step using the Create a budget alert panel on the Billing Overview page. The tool shows you recommended budget amounts based on your usage patterns, and you will receive alerts when your actual spend reaches 50%, 75%, 100%, and 150% of your selected budget. You can later edit these settings in the Manage budgets and alerts section.

Learn more about budgets.

View granular cost data from Cloud Storage usage in Cloud Billing exports to BigQuery

You can now view granular Cloud Storage bucket-level cost data in the Cloud Billing Detailed cost export. Use the resource.global_name field in the export to view and filter your detailed Cloud Storage bucket usage.

Review the schema of the Detailed cost data export.

Recommendations for Compute Engine Flexible committed use discounts are now Generally Available

Flexible CUDs add flexibility to your spending capabilities by eliminating the need to restrict your commitments to a single project, region, or machine series. Flexible CUDs recommendations in the FinOps Hub help you optimize costs by analyzing your spending trends and existing commitments to suggest purchase amounts for Flexible CUDs.

• Learn more about Flexible CUDs
• Learn more about the FinOps Hub

Subscription IDs for your committed use discounts are now available in the Detailed cost data export

You can now view a subscription ID associated with your resource-based and spend based Committed Use Discount (CUD) fees. This enables you to connect CUD fees to the corresponding CUD (subscription instance) to improve traceability of costs and savings calculations. Use the subscription.instance_id column in the Detailed cost data export to see your subscription ID.

• Learn about exporting your billing data to BigQuery
• View the schema of the Detailed cost data export

Control access to single-project budgets

If you are a billing account-level user and are creating a budget for a single project, you can now prevent project users such as Project Owners and Project Editors from making changes to the budget. This prevents inadvertent changes to budgets that you might be tracking at the Cloud Billing account level.

Learn more about creating Google Cloud budgets.

Budgets for project users is now Generally Available

Project users such as Project Owners, Project Editors, and Project Viewers in Google Cloud can now create budgets and stay on top of their cloud costs, without needing additional permissions to access Cloud Billing accounts. Budgets for project users enables project users to take ownership of their costs, plan for the spend in the projects that they own, and proactively manage cost exceptions.

You can now assign custom roles to users who can create, modify and delete single-project budgets for the projects they have access to.

Project users can use the Google Cloud console or the Cloud Billing Budget API to manage budgets for projects.

• Take a 10-minute tutorial to get started with budgets for project users
• View the documentation to learn more about Google Cloud budgets

View granular cost data from Dataflow usage in Cloud Billing exports to BigQuery

You can now view granular Dataflow cost data in the Google Cloud Billing detailed export. Use the resource.name or resource.global_name field in the export to view and filter your detailed Dataflow usage.

Review the schema of the Detailed cost data export.

View granular cost data from BigQuery usage in Cloud Billing exports to BigQuery

View granular cost data from BigQuery in Cloud Billing exports to BigQuery You can now view granular BigQuery cost data in the Google Cloud Billing detailed export. Use the resource.name or resource.global_name field in the export to view and filter your BigQuery Dataset and Jobs costs.

Review the schema of the Detailed cost data export.

You can now monitor and share your current savings, explore new recommended opportunities to optimize costs, and plan your optimization goals with the new FinOps Hub (Preview). The FinOps Hub dashboard generates recommendations based on historical usage metrics, including recent usage and current commitments, and helps you gauge how well you're using Google Cloud tools to monitor and save costs.

Learn more about the FinOps Hub.

Budgets for project users now available (in preview)

Now project users in Google Cloud can create budgets and stay on top of their cloud spend, without needing additional permissions to access Cloud Billing accounts. Budgets for project users enables engineers to take ownership of their costs, plan for the spend in the projects that they own, and proactively manage cost exceptions.

Project Owners, Project Editors, and Project Viewers can view budgets that are scoped to individual projects. Project Owners and Editors can also create, modify and delete single-project budgets for the projects they have access to.

A new email notification option is available for budgets scoped to a single project: Email alerts to project owners. All other notification options are also available for single-project budgets.

Project users can use the Google Cloud console or the Cloud Billing Budget API to manage budgets for projects.

• Take a 10-minute tutorial to get started with budgets for project users
• View the documentation to learn more about Google Cloud budgets

Cloud Billing Pricing API now available in preview

You can now get list prices, as well as account-specific custom prices and discounts for Google Cloud stock keeping units (SKUs) with the Pricing API (preview). You can also use the Pricing API to get additional information about Google Cloud services, such as service-to-SKU mappings, information about SKU groups, SKU group to SKUs mapping, and geo and product taxonomy information.

• Learn about using the API, with example API requests
• Get detailed information in the the API reference

List Prices now available in cost data exports

You can now view the list prices associated with all line items charged to your account in Google Cloud Billing standard and detailed export. Use the cost_at_list column to view list prices.

Review the schema of the Detailed cost data export
Review the schema of the Standard cost data export

View granular cost data from Firestore and Datastore usage in Cloud Billing exports to BigQuery

You can now view granular Firestore and Datastore cost data in the Google Cloud Billing detailed export as part of your overall App Engine usage. For your detailed Firestore and Datastore usage, the service.name column contains App Engine. Use the resource.name or resource.global_name fields in the export to view and filter your detailed Firestore and Datastore usage.

Review the schema of the Detailed cost data export.

Use folders and organizations in budgets: When you set up budgets for your Cloud Billing account, you can set the budget's scope to one or more folders or organizations that are linked to your account, in addition to the current options for specific projects and labels.

When you create a budget that applies to a folder or organization, the budget also covers future projects that you create in the folder or organization.

Learn about creating and modifying budgets for your Cloud Billing account.

Cloud Billing Reports and Cost Breakdown report now support CSV downloads

For Cloud Billing Reports and Cost Breakdown reports, we have added the ability to download the data in the report table to a comma-separated values (CSV) file. With this update, the Download CSV feature is now available on most reports in the Cloud Billing console, including: Cost Table, Pricing Table, Reports, Cost Breakdown, and the Committed Use Discounts (CUDs) dashboard.

View granular cost data from Cloud Spanner usage in Cloud Billing exports to BigQuery

You can now view granular Cloud Spanner cost data in the Google Cloud Billing detailed export. Use the resource.global_name field in the export to view and filter your detailed Cloud Spanner usage.

Review the schema of the Detailed cost data export.

View granular cost data from App Engine usage in Cloud Billing exports to BigQuery

You can now view granular App Engine cost data in the Google Cloud Billing detailed export. Use the resource.global_name field in the export to view and filter your detailed App Engine usage. Note that Firestore, App Engine Flex, and Datastore costs are not included in the granular App Engine instance costs.

Review the schema of the Detailed cost data export.

Committed Use Discounts: View your usage data at an hourly granularity in the CUD Analysis dashboard

You can now analyze the effectiveness of your spend-based or resource-based committed use discounts at an hourly granularity. Previously, you could only analyze your CUDs at the daily level.

Access your usage data at an hourly granularity in the CUD Analysis dashboard.

View your Cloud SQL costs in Billing export to BigQuery

You can now view your granular Cloud SQL instance cost data in the Cloud Billing Detailed cost export. Use the resource.global_name field in the export to view and filter your Cloud SQL instance data.

Preview: Get estimated costs in the Google Cloud console

You can now estimate the cost of Compute Engine and Cloud Storage workloads in the Google Cloud console. The Cost Estimation tool provides estimates that also include any custom contract prices on your Cloud Billing account. These cost estimates can help you make more informed business decisions.

Learn about estimating costs in the Google Cloud console.

View granular cost data from Cloud Run instances in Cloud Billing exports to BigQuery

You can now view granular Cloud Run cost data in the Google Cloud Billing detailed export. Use the resource.global_name field in the export to view and filter your Cloud Run instances.

Review the schema of the Detailed cost data export.

View granular cost data from Cloud Function instances in Cloud Billing exports to BigQuery

You can now view granular Cloud Function cost data in the Google Cloud Billing detailed export. Use the resource.global_name field in the export to view and filter your Cloud Function instances.

Review the schema of the Detailed cost data export.

Generally available: View your Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) costs in Cloud Billing reports and cost data export to BigQuery

You can view your GKE costs by cluster, namespace, and pod labels in the Detailed cost export, and the built-in reports in the Google Cloud console.

Cloud Billing export to BigQuery

In the Detailed cost export to BigQuery, you can use the labels.key column to filter the data by these label keys:

• goog-k8s-cluster-name: Filter your GKE resources by cluster.
• k8s-namespace: Filter your GKE resources by namespace.
• k8s-label: View all your GKE resources.

Cloud Billing reports

In the Cloud Billing report, Cost breakdown report, and Cost Table report, you can use the Label selector to filter and group your data by cluster or namespace, using one of these label keys:

• goog-k8s-cluster-name: Filter or group your GKE resources by cluster.
• k8s-namespace: Filter or group your GKE resources by namespace.

To start viewing and analyzing your GKE cost data, see these pages:

• Enable cost allocation for your GKE clusters
• Enable the Detailed cost data export
• Review the schema of the Detailed cost data export
• View your Cloud Billing reports

Tags data now available in cost data export in BigQuery

Tags are attached to resources and support inheritance, centralized management, nomenclature standardization, and policy engine integration. For Cloud Billing, Tags help map costs across your organization. In cost reporting, you can query on Tags to perform Cost Management tasks like chargebacks, audits, and other cost allocations.

Tags data is available in both the Standard usage cost export and the Detailed usage cost export.

To learn more about Tags, see Tags overview. To learn about using Tags in your cost data exported to BigQuery, see more about tags and query examples with tags.

You can now estimate the cost of your workloads using the Cost Estimation API (Preview). The Cost Estimation API provides customer-specific estimates that include all your discounts, such as those negotiated as part of a contract and those based on committed usage. These cost estimates can help you make more informed business decisions.

• For information on using the API, and example API requests, see Get cost estimates for your Google Cloud workloads.

• For detailed information on the API request and response formats, see the API overview.

Secure the link between a project and its billing account

In the Cloud Billing Console, you can now lock the link between a project and its Cloud Billing account, in order to prevent accidental changes to the billing state, such as disabling billing or moving the project to a different billing account. You can also unlock this protected state if you want to unlink a project from a Cloud Billing account.

Google Cloud projects contain all the resources required for a system to operate. To pay for the usage of the Cloud resources (such as Compute Engine or Storage), each project must be linked to an active Cloud Billing account. If you unlink the project from a billing account, you disable billing on that project. When billing is disabled on a project, all resources contained within the project will shut down, which can cause outages to your normal business operation.

To prevent unintentional outages due to billing issues, lock your valuable projects to their linked billing account. Locking creates a two-step process to change the billing state of a project, improving billing reliability and reducing accidental outages due to billing issues.

Learn how to secure the link between a project and a Cloud Billing account.

Preview: View your Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) costs in Cloud Billing reports and cost data export to BigQuery

You can view your GKE costs by cluster, namespace, and pod labels in the Detailed cost export, and the built-in reports in the Google Cloud console.

Cloud Billing export to BigQuery

In the Detailed cost export to BigQuery, you can use the labels.key column to filter the data by these label keys:

• goog-k8s-cluster-name: Filter your GKE resources by cluster.
• k8s-namespace: Filter your GKE resources by namespace.
• k8s-label: View all your GKE resources.

Cloud Billing reports

In the Cloud Billing report, Cost breakdown report, and Cost Table report, you can use the Label selector to filter and group your data by cluster or namespace, using one of these label keys:

• goog-k8s-cluster-name: Filter or group your GKE resources by cluster.
• k8s-namespace: Filter or group your GKE resources by namespace.

To start viewing and analyzing your GKE cost data, see these pages:

• Enable cost allocation for your GKE clusters
• Enable the Detailed cost data export
• Review the schema of the Detailed cost data export
• View your Cloud Billing reports

Cost table report now supports updated filters, project ancestry, and report sharing

In the Cloud Billing Console Cost table report, we've updated the report's filters and invoice month selector to function similarly to the Cloud Billing Reports page and Cost breakdown page, added project ancestry functionality, and enabled report sharing.

Updated filters: You use the cost table report to access the details of your invoices and statements. The report's filters and other settings allow you to configure the report views when you are analyzing the usage and cost data. You can also download the cost table data to CSV for offline analysis. When you download the report to CSV, the data that downloads is limited by any filters that you have set and includes only the columns that you have selected to view.

Project ancestry: A new table column has been added to display project ancestry data. Starting with the January 2022 invoice month:

• Historical project metadata is available with the addition of Project hierarchy data.
• Usage and cost data that was grouped by Project is now grouped by Project hierarchy.
• You can now filter on Folders & Organizations, components of a project's ancestry, to analyze costs by project hierarchy.
• The values in the project hierarchy column are displayed only when you are viewing a flat table view or when you are viewing a nested table view grouped by Project > Service > SKU.
• The report returns a row for each distinct combination of Organization > Folder > Project, and the table includes columns for Project, Project ID, Project number, and Project hierarchy. The values listed in the Project hierarchy column show Organization name > Folder name.

Report sharing: Along with the updated report filters, the cost table report now supports URL bookmarking and sharing. As you configure your cost table report by setting the invoice month, table view cost grouping options, and report filters, the cost table URL updates to include your selections. You can save your report settings by bookmarking the URL. You can share the cost table report by copying the URL.

For more details about the cost table report and using the updated features and functionality, see the documentation.

Cost analysis by project ancestry, including folder-level costs, now available in BigQuery Export and Reports

Viewing your costs by project ancestry helps you do things like analyze costs by folder or organization. For example, if you use folders in an organization to represent cost centers (such as DevOps or Finance), you can effectively configure your report or query to group all costs by those cost centers.

Billing Reports

In the Cloud Billing Console Reports page, you can now Group by Project hierarchy and filter on Folders & Organizations, to analyze costs by project ancestry (such as folders or organizations).

• Group costs by project ancestry – In the Reports page, when you group by Project hierarchy, the report returns a row for each unique combination of Organization > Folder > Project, and the table includes columns for Project, Project ID, Project number, and Project hierarchy. The values listed in the Project hierarchy column show Organization name > Folder name.

• Filter costs by project ancestor(s) – In the Reports page, when you filter by Folders & Organizations, the report returns costs for all projects that are associated with any of the selected folders/organizations in their project ancestry.

In the Cloud Billing Console Cost breakdown report, you can now filter on Folders & Organizations, to analyze costs by project ancestry (such as folders or organizations).

• Filter costs by project ancestor(s) – In the Cost breakdown report, when you filter by Folders & Organizations, the report returns costs and credits aggregated for all projects that are associated with any of the selected folders/organizations in their project ancestry.

To learn more about organizations, folders, and project hierarchy, see Billing reports: Analyzing your costs by project hierarchy.

Cloud Billing data export to BigQuery

In the Cloud Billing usage cost data that exports to BigQuery, you can now see resource hierarchy metadata that describes a project's ancestry, including:

• project.ancestors.resource_name – An identifier containing the resource hierarchy type and ID (for example, folders/234)
• project.ancestors.display_name – A name that you create for the resource (for example, DevOps)

The project.ancestors metadata is available in both the Standard usage cost export and Detailed usage cost export. To help make resource hierarchy levels easier to identify in the BigQuery data tables, the ancestor data includes the resource display name (a human-readable name that you create) and the relative resource hierarchy names (immutable ID numbers representing each project/folder/organization).

For more details about project.ancestry_numbers and project.ancestors, see

• Understand the Cloud Billing data tables in BigQuery
• Query examples to use resource hierarchy filters to review project ancestry

Prioritized attribution for your resource-based committed use discounts (CUDs) is now Generally Available.

You can now specify how your credits and, where appropriate, the subscription fees from your resource-based committed use discounts are distributed among your Google Cloud projects.

Learn about how you can allocate your commitments.

Recommendations for spend-based committed use discounts (CUDs) are now Generally Available.

You can use these recommendations to optimize your project costs by analyzing your spending trends and signing up for committed use discounts. Recommendations are supported for Cloud Billing accounts billed in US Dollars (USD).

Learn about commitment recommendations.

Cost breakdown report now supports new filters and report sharing

In the Cloud Billing Console Cost breakdown report, you can now select the costs you want to analyze using the Time range and other report filters, such as projects, services, and SKUs.

For detailed insights behind the results of your cost breakdown report, view the Reports page. The cost breakdown report is linked to the Cloud Billing Reports page; the link uses the same time range and report filters you configure on your cost breakdown report. When you open the Reports page from your cost breakdown report, the report opens displaying the same totals as the cost breakdown report.

Along with the new report filters, the cost breakdown report now supports URL bookmarking and sharing. As you configure your cost breakdown report by setting the time range and other filters, the cost breakdown URL updates to include your selections. You can save your report settings by bookmarking the URL. You can share the cost breakdown report by copying the URL.

For more details about the cost breakdown report and using the new report filters and sharing feature, see the documentation.

Cloud Billing Budgets & alerts now support configurable budget time periods, beyond monthly budgets

In the Cloud Billing Console Budgets & alerts settings, you can now specify the time period of your budgets. Using the Time range settings now available to budgets in the Cloud Console, you can configure the budget's time range to a calendar period or a custom date range, allowing you to create budgets to monitor spend for time frames beyond the default calendar month, such as a quarter, a year, or a custom date range that you specify.

With this update, you can create, view, and manage all budgets (monthly and non-monthly) in the Budgets & alerts page in the Cloud Console or by using the Cloud Billing Budget API.

For more information on budgets and alerts, see Create, edit, or delete budgets and budget alerts.

The detailed usage cost data export to BigQuery is now generally available (GA).

The detailed export includes all of the data fields from the standard usage cost data export, along with additional fields that provide resource-level cost data. The resource-level cost data available in the detailed export is limited to Compute Engine resources, such as virtual machines or SSDs that generate service usage.

In your BigQuery dataset, the detailed usage cost data is exported to a table named gcp_billing_export_resource_v1_<BILLING_ACCOUNT_ID>.

The following are the newly available fields:

• resource (Struct) - The fields that describe the structure and value of information relevant to service resources (like a virtual machine or a SSD) that generate service usage.
• resource.global_name (String) - A globally unique service identifier for the resource that generated relevant usage.
• resource.name (String) - A service-specific identifier for the resource that generated relevant usage. This can be input generated by the user. Note, the first full day of data with this field is August 11, 2021.

The daily cost detail data export to BigQuery is now the standard usage cost data export.

To understand the differences between the standard and detailed usage cost data exports to BigQuery, see the documentation.

Proportional attribution for spend-based committed use discounts is now generally available (GA).

Proportional attribution applies the subscription fees from your committed use discounts to the projects in your Cloud Billing account, directly in proportion to the amount of eligible credit consumed by each project. Any subscription fees that are not attributed to a project are charged at the Cloud Billing account level.

Starting from August 2021, all spend-based commitments you purchase for any of your Cloud Billing accounts use proportional attribution by default. If you purchased spend-based commitments before then, you can request that they be converted from account to proportional attribution.

To understand proportional attribution for your spend-based commitments and how to enable it, see the documentation.

Summary bar now available in the Cost Table report

To provide additional flexibility when analyzing your data in the cost table report, we've added the summary bar as another analysis tool.

When you select a subset of rows in your cost table, a floating summary bar opens and shows you the total gross costs, credits, the percentage of savings, and the total net costs, summarized for the selected rows. The summary bar is available for both the nested and flat table views.

For more information about using the summary bar on the Cost table report, see View and download the cost details of your invoice or statement.

Committed use discounts for Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) are now Generally Available to purchase for workloads running on GKE Autopilot.

They provide discounted prices in exchange for your commitment to use a minimum level of resources for a specified term. The spend-based committed use discounts apply to all GKE Autopilot Pod workload CPU, memory, and ephemeral storage usage in the region in which you have committed. This gives you low, predictable costs, without the need to make any manual changes or updates yourself. This flexibility saves you time and helps you to save more by achieving high utilization rates across your commitments.

GKE Autopilot Mode commitments do not apply to the cluster management fee or to GKE Standard mode compute nodes.

See the documentation for more details.

Committed use discounts are now available for public preview to purchase for Cloud Run. They provide discounted prices in exchange for your commitment to use a minimum level of resources for a specified term. The spend-based committed use discounts apply to all aggregated Cloud Run CPU, memory, and request usage in a region, giving you low, predictable costs when your code is running in one of the supported container ecosystems.

Cloud Run commitments do not apply to networking changes.

See the documentation for more details.

Cloud Billing Reports now show the target budget amount when you open the report from a budget

In the Cloud Billing Console, Billing Budgets are linked to the Billing Reports page. If you open the Reports page from a Budget, the budget's scopes are used to set the report's filters and the report opens displaying the costs tracked by the budget. Additionally, the budget's target amount appears in the report chart as a red, dashed line, helping you to visualize the budget amount in the report while you are analyzing the specific, budget-related costs. You can open the cost report from the list of budgets, or from a budget's cost trend chart.

For more details about how budgets and cost reports are linked, see Viewing a budget in your report.

Budget API now supports configurable budget time periods, beyond monthly budgets

Using the Cloud Billing Budget API to manage your budgets, you can now specify the time period of the budget. Prior to this update, you could only configure a budget to monitor costs incurred during a calendar month. Using the usage_period filter that is available in the Cloud Billing Budget API, you can configure the budget time period to a CalendarPeriod or a CustomPeriod, allowing you to create budgets to monitor time frames beyond the default calendar month, such as a quarter, a year, or a custom date range that you specify.

At this time, budgets configured with a non-monthly time period can only be viewed and managed using the Cloud Billing Budget API. Non-monthly budgets are not yet visible in the Budgets page in the Cloud Console.

For more information on using the Cloud Billing Budget API, see Get started with the Cloud Billing Budget API.

List cost and Unrounded cost columns now available in the Cost Table report

We've added two columns of data to the Cost table report: List cost and Unrounded cost.

• List cost: The List cost column is available for Cloud Billing accounts associated with a negotiated pricing contract, and represents the monthly cost of your cloud usage calculated using list prices. If your account has negotiated, custom pricing, you can compare List cost amounts to Cost amounts to determine how much you are saving with your negotiated prices.
• Unrounded cost: The Unrounded cost column contains the calculated cost of the usage to a precision of up to six decimal places. Unrounded costs can be helpful when analyzing your cost details and understanding the source of any discrepancies due to rounding.

For more information on the Cost table report, see View and download the cost details of your invoice or statement.

Optimal Recommendations for Compute Engine committed use discounts are now Generally Available. Recommendations provide you opportunities to optimize your compute costs by analyzing your VM spending trends and recommending committed use discount contracts.

Recommendations are presented in two forms:

• Optimal recommendations are based on overall usage and might cover resources that are not on all the time.
• Stable usage recommendations cover minimum stable usage over time.

For understanding and purchasing committed use discount recommendations, see the documentation.

PayPal now available as a form of payment in many countries

If you have an online, auto-pay Cloud Billing account, you might be able to add PayPal as a form of payment on that account.

To learn if PayPal is available for your Cloud Billing account in your country or region, visit one of these tools:

• Cloud Billing docs: Currencies and payment methods available for Cloud Billing auto-pay accounts
• Google Payments: Payment methods & terms of service finder

To learn how to update the form of payment on your online, auto-pay Cloud Billing account, see Add, remove, or update a payment method.

Cloud Billing Budgets now shows your historic cost trends when you're planning your budget .

In the Cloud Billing Console, the Cloud Billing Budget creation and edit experience has been updated to include a cost trend chart showing your summarized costs by month for the previous 12 months, helping you visualize how your targeted budget amount is tracking with your spend. Your cost trend chart will show different results based on the budget filters you set (for example, filtering on specific projects or services).

You can use the chart to identify previous spending trends and help forecast future needs as you plan your budget. If you need more detailed insights, the chart is linked to the Cloud Billing Reports page; the link uses the same filters you set on your budget to configure your report view.

For more information on the cost trend chart, see Set budgets and budget alerts.

Pricing report access updated to allow Billing Account Users to view a version of the report

The Pricing report provides SKU prices for Google's cloud services, including Google Cloud, Google Maps Platform, and Google Workspace. Prior to this update, you could access the report only if you were a Billing Account Administrator or a Billng Account Viewer. Now, Billing Account Users can also access the report.

The data displayed in your report is dependent on your level of access to your Cloud Billing account. For more information, see View and download prices for Google's cloud services.

Cloud Billing Reports page now allows you to save your report views.

The Cloud Billing Reports in the Google Cloud Console allows you to view and visualize your Google Cloud spend over time. You can filter and break down your usage by different dimensions, including: time range, projects, products, SKUs, labels, and subaccounts. Prior to this update, if you wanted to save your filter settings, your only options were to bookmark or make a copy of your report's URL. To offer a better user experience, you can now save your custom report views and access your saved views.

For information on the saved views feature, refer to Saving and sharing report views in the Cloud Billing documentation.

Cost table report now includes invoice header information and project-level taxes.

The cost table report presents a detailed, tabular view of your monthly costs for a given invoice or statement. The cost table has been updated to include invoice or statement header information that is viewable in the cost table page as well as downloadable to CSV.

Additionally, the cost table report now breaks out your tax costs by each project. Prior to this update, your tax costs were listed at the end of the cost table as a row for each type of tax incurred, aggregated for the whole invoice or statement. To view the details of your tax costs, in the cost table, look for rows with a Cost type: Tax and SKU description: description and percentage of tax (for example, PST/QST/RST (9.975%) or State sales tax (4.71%)).

For information on using the cost table report to view and analyze the details of your invoice or statement, refer to the Cost table reports documentation.

The Cloud Billing Budgets API v1 is now available.

• Learn about the Cloud Billing Budgets REST API.
• Review examples of using the Billing Budgets REST API.
• Learn about the Cloud Billing Budgets API client libraries.

Discount sharing for committed use discounts is now Generally Available. With discount sharing enabled, you can apply your purchased commitments across multiple projects within a single Cloud Billing account. Discount sharing helps you minimize the overhead of managing each of your commitments individually and provides increased flexibility so that you can use the compute options that best suit your needs, while also increasing cost predictability.

• For more information about enabling committed use discount sharing, see Turning on committed use discount sharing.
• For more information on the possible cost savings using committed use discount sharing, see Understanding discount sharing.

The Cloud Billing data export to BigQuery daily cost detail data now includes 3 additional fields to describe credits: credits.id, credits.full_name, and credits.type. Including the credit details in the data export to BigQuery is especially useful for creating queries to analyze how credits impact your costs on a more granular level, such as understanding credits grouped by project, or for analyzing the source of multiple credits of the same type that were earned during the same invoice period (such as sustained usage discounts earned as usage increases).

See Understanding the Cloud Billing data tables in BigQuery for more details.

Recommendations for Compute Engine committed use discounts are now available in beta. Recommendations provide you opportunities to optimize your compute costs by analyzing your VM spending trends and recommending committed use discount contracts. For understanding and purchasing committed use discount recommendations, see the documentation.

You can now view a summary of all your spend-based committed use discounts (CUD) and purchase new commitments in the commitment dashboard. The dashboard lists the type of commitment, region it's located, current active commitments, term length, and the start and end dates for the commitment. See the documentation for more details.

New columns added to Cost Table report: Credit ID and Credit name. Starting with your July 2020 invoice month, the cost table report now includes columns for Credit ID and Credit name. Including credit details in the cost table report is especially useful for understanding project-level credits, or for analyzing the source of multiple credits of the same type, earned during the same invoice period (such as sustained usage discounts earned as usage increases).

When you first load the cost table report, the credit columns are hidden by default. You can use the column selector to customize the columns you view in the report as well as the columns you download to CSV. See the documentation for more details.

If you have a negotiated pricing contract associated with your Cloud Billing account, starting with your July 2020 invoice, the Cloud Billing report and the Cost Breakdown report now support displaying your costs calculated using list prices, displaying your negotiated savings as a separate credit. This view helps you see how much money you are saving on your Google Cloud costs because of your negotiated pricing contract.

For information on how to view your list costs and negotiated savings in reports, see the documentation:

• Learn more about viewing negotiated savings in your Cloud Billing report.
• Learn more about viewing negotiated savings in your Cost Breakdown report.

Export your Cloud Billing account SKU prices to BigQuery. You can now export your pricing information for Google Cloud and Google Maps Platform SKUs to BigQuery. Exporting your pricing data allows you to audit, analyze, and/or join your pricing data with your exported cost data. The pricing export includes list prices, pricing tiers, and, when applicable, any promotional or negotiated pricing. See the documentation for more details.

The Cost Table report functionality has been updated to add a Table configuration interface that replaces the previous Group by and Label selectors. Use the new Table configuration dialog to choose a Label key and select your Group by options. Additionally, the available Group by options have been enhanced to include a new Custom grouping option. Use custom grouping to view a nested cost table with your costs grouped by up to three dimensions that you choose, including label values. See the documentation for more details.

Committed use discounts (CUDs) are now available to purchase for Cloud SQL. CUDs provide discounted prices in exchange for your commitment to use a minimum level of resources for a specified term. With spend-based committed use discounts for Cloud SQL, you can earn a deep discount off your cost of use in exchange for committing to continuously use database instances in a particular region for a 1- or 3-year term. See the blog and documentation for more details.

Labels column added to the flat table view of the Cloud Billing Cost Table report. The Cost Table report provides a tabular view of your invoice costs. You can quickly filter your costs by available fields, such as project, service, SKU, and labels (among other fields), and you can download the table to CSV for offline analysis. See the documentation for more details.

Cloud Billing Budget API: new budget filters for groups of subaccounts and resource labels are now available in the Budget API. See the documentation for more details.

Cloud Billing budgets emails: ensure your budget alert emails are seen by the right people using Cloud Monitoring notifications on your Cloud Billing budgets. By default, alert emails are sent to Billing Account Administrators. With the Monitoring notifications feature, you can customize your budget to send alerts to up to five additional email recipients you specify. See the documentation for more details.

New information is now available on your Cloud Billing account Overview page in the Cloud Console, featuring at-a-glance summaries of the top five spending projects and top five spending products over the last 12 months.

To see the updated Billing Account Overview page, go to the Manage billing accounts page in the Cloud Console and sign in, then select the name of the Cloud Billing account you want to view. The Billing Overview page is displayed with the BILLING ACCOUNT OVERVIEW tab selected. You might need to scroll the page to see all the features.

For customers with self-serve/online Cloud Billing accounts, you can now find your Cloud Billing documents in the Documents page of the Cloud Billing console. In the Documents page, you can find your monthly invoices or statements, as well as tax documents, if applicable to your account. Before this launch, the Documents page was only available to customers viewing invoiced Cloud Billing accounts, while self-serve/online accounts were limited to finding their Cloud Billing documents in the Transactions page. See the ⁠documentation for more details.

Budget alerts: new budget filters are now available. In addition to project and product filters, you can now scope your budgets and alerts for groups of subaccounts and resource labels. Budget alerts help you stay informed of how your spend is tracking against your budget so you can avoid billing surprises. (Note that these filters are not available in the Budgets API in this release.) See the ⁠documentation for more details.

Discount sharing for committed use discounts is now available in beta. With discount sharing enabled, you can apply your purchased commitments across multiple projects within a single Cloud Billing account. Discount sharing helps you minimize the overhead of managing each of your commitments individually and provides increased flexibility so that you can use the compute options that best suit your needs, while also increasing cost predictability.

• For more information about enabling committed use discount sharing, see Turning on committed use discount sharing.
• For more information on the possible cost savings using committed use discount sharing, see Understanding discount sharing.

Cloud Billing console now has a Pricing report, providing a tabular view of the prices of Google’s cloud services SKUs, including Google Cloud, Google Maps Platform, and Google Workspace. You can select to view the SKUs with historical usage on the billing account or all Google Cloud SKUs. If you have a negotiated contract, the pricing table will include the list price, the contract price and the effective discount. You can also download the table to CSV for offline analysis. See the documentation for more details.

Billing health checks is now available on your Cloud Billing account Overview page in the Cloud Console. This feature automatically analyzes the health of your Cloud Billing account, then displays the results in a Billing health checks informational card, helping you avoid common billing-related issues and to adopt our best-practice recommendations. In the info card, click View all health checks to view a page with detailed recommendations, explanations, and action items to remedy issues that could jeopardize the safety or condition of your Cloud Billing account.

To see the Billing health checks card, go to the Manage billing accounts page in the Cloud Console and sign in, then select the name of the billing account you want to view. The Billing Overview page is displayed with the BILLING ACCOUNT OVERVIEW tab selected. Look for the card titled Billing health checks.

The Cost Table report now includes a nested table view, providing a hierarchical, tree-structured view of your cost data which is helpful when analyzing your billing data online. You can select your grouping options, filter your costs by project, service, and SKU (among other fields), and specify the table columns to be displayed. You can also download the table to CSV for offline analysis. See the documentation for more details.

The Cloud Billing reports now support filtering and grouping costs by User Labels. See the documentation for more details. Learn more about User Labels.

The Cloud Billing Committed Use Discounts (CUD) Analysis report is now available in GA. View the CUD Analysis report to easily visualize the effectiveness and financial impact of committed use discounts you have purchased. See the documentation for more details. Learn more about Committed Use Discounts.

The Cloud Billing Budget API is now available in Beta. With the Budget API, you can view, create, and manage budgets programmatically at scale. Budget alerts help you stay informed of how your spend is tracking against your budget so you can avoid billing surprises. See the documentation for more details.

The Cloud Billing reports page now supports URL bookmarking and sharing. As you configure your report by setting filters and groupings, your URL updates to include your selections. You can save your report settings by bookmarking the URL. You can share the report by copying the URL. See the documentation for more details.

Set budget alerts on projects and products. New, more granular budget filters are now available, allowing you to scope your budgets and alerts for groups of projects and GCP services. Budget alerts help you stay informed of how your spend is tracking against your budget so you can avoid billing surprises. See the documentation for more details.

The Cost Table report is now available in Cloud Billing. Use Cost Table reports to get a tabular view of your invoice costs grouped by project and SKU. You can quickly filter your costs by project, service, and SKU (among other fields), and you can download the table to CSV for offline analysis. See the documentation for more details.

Complete Billing Record in Reports: Starting with your May 2019 invoice (issued in early June 2019), you can configure your Cloud Billing reports to view your charges by invoice, including invoice-level charges (for example, taxes, contractual credits, or surcharges) and any rounding errors. Use this view to reconcile your Cloud Billing reports to your invoice, to the penny. See the documentation for more details.

Cost Breakdown Reports: Cost Breakdown reports are now available in Cloud Billing. Use Cost Breakdown reports for a quick overview of how usage-based discounts and credits save you money on your GCP invoice. See the documentation for more details.

The Cloud Billing Committed Use Discounts (CUD) Analysis report is now available in Beta. View the CUD Analysis report to easily visualize the effectiveness and financial impact of committed use discounts you have purchased. See the documentation for more details. Learn more about Committed Use Discounts.

The Cloud Billing reports now support filtering and grouping costs by location, specifically geography (such as Americas), multi-region (such as US), or region (such as us-east1). See the documentation for more details. Learn more about Cloud locations.

Budget alerts against forecasted costs: You can now configure budget alerts for when your costs are forecasted to exceed your budget. For each budget you have configured, you can set multiple budget alert threshold rules, triggered against either actual costs or forecasted costs, so you can stay informed of how your spend is tracking against your budget and avoid billing surprises. See the documentation for more details.

Cloud Billing reports now support detailed credit types in the report settings.

Previously, costs were reported as cost before credits, credits, and cost after credits. The credit amount displayed was a sum of all possible credit types.

With this launch, you can now see what types of credits (discounts, promotions, etc.) comprise the credit amount displayed in the report. In the report settings, you can toggle on and off the different types of credits to customize your report views. See the billing reports documentation for details.

Complete Billing Record in Export: Starting with your January 2019 invoice (issued in early February 2019) you can reconcile your Cloud Billing export to BigQuery to your invoice, to the penny. The export now includes a cost_type field to identify regular, tax, adjustment, and rounding error costs. See the documentation and example queries for more details.

Folders in Export: Cloud Billing export to BigQuery now includes the folder(s) and organization (if applicable) that a project belongs to (its project ancestry). This helps you do things like query costs by folder. See the documentation for more details about project.ancestry_numbers.

Cloud Billing reports now support a bar chart view. See the billing reports documentation for details.

Cloud Billing export to BigQuery now includes additional location and system label fields to let you examine your cost data in more granular detail. Location details allow you to view your costs in each GCP region and zone, where supported by the service. System labels allow you to segment your costs by virtual machine type, number of cores, or amount of RAM. The compute.googleapis.com/machine_spec system label should now be used in place of sku.description to query costs by virtual machine family and geometry. See the documentation for more details about the new fields.

A new Cloud Billing IAM permission is now available that gives you finer control over what cost data your users can see. You can now use billing.resourceCosts.get to grant project-specific access to cost data like billing reports. The new permission was added on 08-6, 2018. To give you time to set up your users with the correct permissions, the new permission will not be enforced until 08-20, 2018. See the documentation for more details.

Cost forecasts are now available as a GA feature in Cloud Billing reports. Cost forecasts make it easier to see at a glance how your costs are trending and how much you are projected to spend. See the blog and documentation for more details.

Cloud Billing export to BigQuery now includes the invoice month (invoice.month) that the cost line item appears on. See the export schema documentation and example queries for more details.

Cloud Billing programmatic notifications for budget alerts is now available in GA. You can configure programmatic notifications to receive Cloud Pub/Sub messages about the current status of your budget. See the blog and documentation for more details.

Cloud Billing reports are now available in GA. Billing reports let you quickly chart your billing account's cloud spending. See the blog and documentation for more details.

Cloud Billing programmatic notifications for budget alerts is now available in Beta. You can configure programmatic notifications to receive Cloud Pub/Sub messages about the current status of your budget. See the documentation for more details.

Cloud Billing reports are now available in Beta. Billing reports let you quickly chart your billing account's cloud spending. See the blog and documentation for more details.

The Cloud Billing Catalog API is now available in GA. The Catalog API offers programmatic access to pricing metadata on Cloud Platform SKUs. See the blog and documentation for more details.

Cloud Billing export to BigQuery is now available in GA. BigQuery billing export regularly publishes new SKU usage and cost data to your BigQuery dataset. You can write SQL queries to understand your spending and use the BigQuery dataset to drive visualization tools like Data Studio. See the blog and documentation for more details.