GCP Cloud Digital Leader Practice Question

Your company is moving workloads to Google Cloud. Finance asks that project owners receive an email whenever monthly costs reach 80 percent of the amount allocated, but workloads must continue running. Which Google Cloud feature best meets this requirement?

Purchase committed use discounts for the project's resources
Run workloads on preemptible virtual machine instances
Set project-level resource quotas that cap usage at 80 percent of expected capacity
Create a Cloud Billing budget with an 80 percent threshold alert

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Answer Description

Cloud Billing budgets allow you to specify a planned spend for a billing account, project, or set of resources and define threshold rules-such as 50%, 75%, or 90% of the budget. When actual or forecasted charges reach a threshold like 80%, Cloud Billing automatically sends notifications (for example, email or Pub/Sub) to the selected recipients. Budgets do not stop resources; they simply alert stakeholders so they can take action. Resource quotas restrict resource consumption and can block additional usage once limits are hit, which might interrupt workloads instead of merely notifying. Committed use discounts reduce unit prices but do not monitor spending or send alerts. Preemptible VMs lower compute costs but likewise provide no spend-tracking alerts. Therefore, budgets with threshold-based alerts are the appropriate choice for proactive cost monitoring without service interruption.

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