Your finance team wants to avoid billing surprises and keep each project's monthly spend within agreed limits, without preventing engineers from deploying resources. Which Google Cloud financial-governance best practice should you implement first to provide predictable, controlled cloud costs?
Export detailed billing data to BigQuery for later analysis.
Request higher project quotas so resources are less likely to be blocked.
Purchase committed use discounts for key workloads.
Create a Cloud Billing budget and send alerts when spend reaches set percentages of the budget.
Creating a Cloud Billing budget with threshold-based email or Pub/Sub alerts is a recommended first step for financial governance. Budgets do not block resources, but they warn stakeholders as spending approaches or exceeds a defined amount, giving teams time to react and stay within targets. Committed Use Discounts lower unit prices but do not signal overspend, exporting data to BigQuery only provides raw cost data after the fact, and requesting quota increases can actually enable higher spend rather than control it.
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