Your finance team wants two things for a new Google Cloud project: (1) the ability to run ad-hoc SQL queries against up-to-date cost and usage data, and (2) a durable, low-cost copy of the raw daily data retained for several years. You have been asked to configure Cloud Billing exports with minimal ongoing maintenance. Which pair of export destinations best meets these requirements?
Stream usage data to Cloud Pub/Sub and load it on demand into BigQuery for analysis.
Create a detailed cost export to a BigQuery dataset and a standard usage export to a Cloud Storage bucket.
Write cost data to Cloud Logging and visualize it in Looker Studio dashboards.
Export detailed usage data to Cloud SQL for queries and copy daily files to Nearline storage.
Cloud Billing supports two built-in export paths. Sending the export to BigQuery lets analysts write SQL queries directly against detailed and standard cost views without additional ETL. Enabling a parallel export to Cloud Storage writes the same data as JSON or CSV files that can be kept in an inexpensive bucket for long-term archival. Other services such as Pub/Sub, Cloud SQL, or Cloud Logging are not native billing-export targets, so choosing them would require extra pipelines or are unsupported.
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