GCP allows you to export the billing information to a BigQuery dataset or a file in a Cloud Storage bucket. This can be useful for preparing reports and an analysis of the cost of your cloud consumption.
We will learn about BigQuery and Google Storage in the big data and storage chapters of this book. To understand billing exports, you just need to know that BigQuery is a GCP data-warehouse service and Cloud Storage is an object-storage service.
To perform the export, follow these steps:
- Go to Billing and choose Billing export. You will be presented with both options. Select the type of export, fill in the information about the dataset or bucket, and click on SAVE:
- After the data is exported to BigQuery, you can perform ...