Google Cloud Management, Monitoring & Cost
Cloud Billing & Budgets
Billing reports, cost breakdowns, budgets and alerts.
What it is used for
- Cost reports
- Budget alerts
- Committed-use discounts
Equivalent on AWS
The closest AWS service is AWS Cost Explorer & Budgets: visualise, understand and forecast cloud spend, with budget alerts.
How DomainHostly helps with Cloud Billing & Budgets
- Plan: choose the right setup, size and region for your workload and budget.
- Set up securely: configure Cloud Billing & Budgets with least-privilege access, encryption and backups where they apply.
- Migrate: move from shared hosting, your own servers or the other cloud with minimal downtime.
- Run and optimise: monitoring, updates and regular cost reviews so you only pay for what you use.
Management, Monitoring & Cost: Monitoring, logging, infrastructure as code, governance and cost management.
What to consider: Management, Monitoring & Cost
- Define infrastructure as code so environments can be rebuilt and reviewed.
- Set budgets and alerts in the first week; surprise bills are the most common cloud complaint.
- Monitor what customers feel (uptime, errors, latency), not only server metrics.
Related services: Management, Monitoring & Cost
- Cloud Monitoring (Google Cloud)
- Cloud Logging (Google Cloud)
- Cloud Audit Logs (Google Cloud)
- Managed Service for Prometheus (Google Cloud)
- Infrastructure Manager (Terraform) (Google Cloud)
- VM Manager (Google Cloud)
- Amazon CloudWatch (AWS)
- AWS CloudTrail (AWS)
- AWS CloudFormation (AWS)
- AWS CDK (AWS)