This document includes the best practices and guidelines for Cloud Billing when running generative AI workloads on Google Cloud. Use Cloud Billing with Vertex AI to review usage and billing of the Vertex AI workloads.
Recommended Cloud Billing controls
The following controls are recommended when using Cloud Billing.
Configure billing alerts
| Google control ID | CB-CO-6.1 |
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| Category | Recommended |
| Description | Avoid surprises on your bill by creating Cloud Billing budgets to monitor all of your Google Cloud charges in one place. After you've established a budget amount, set budget alert threshold rules on a per-project basis to trigger email notifications. These notifications help you track your spending against your budget. You can also use Cloud Billing budgets to automate cost-control responses. |
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| Related NIST-800-53 controls |
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| Related CRI profile controls |
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Optional Cloud Billing controls
You can optionally implement the following controls based on your organization's requirements.
Export billing data for detailed analysis
| Google control ID | CB-CO-6.2 |
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| Category | Optional |
| Description | For further billing analysis, you can export Google Cloud billing data to BigQuery or a JSON file. For example, you can automatically export detailed data, such as usage, cost estimates, and pricing, throughout the day to a BigQuery dataset that you specify. You can then access your Cloud Billing data from BigQuery for detailed analysis, or use a tool like Looker Studio to visualize your data. |
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| Related NIST-800-53 controls |
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| Related CRI profile controls |
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| Related information |
What's next
Review Cloud Build controls.
See more Google Cloud security best practices and guidelines for generative AI workloads.