Consolidating GCP Costs for Multiple Organizations
Question
Your company has an existing GCP organization with hundreds of projects and a billing account.
Your company recently acquired another company that also has hundreds of projects and its own billing account.
You would like to consolidate all GCP costs of both GCP organizations onto a single invoice.
You would like to consolidate all costs as of tomorrow.
What should you do?
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A. B. C. D.D.
https://cloud.google.com/resource-manager/docs/migrating-projects-billingThe correct answer for this scenario is option C - Migrate the acquired company's projects into your company's GCP organization. Link the migrated projects to your company's billing account.
Explanation:
Option A is not the right approach because linking the acquired company's projects to your company's billing account will only move the billing to one account, but it won't consolidate the costs into a single invoice.
Option B is also not the right approach because exporting billing data to the same BigQuery dataset won't consolidate the costs into a single invoice. It will only provide a unified view of the billing data, but you will still need to pay separately for each billing account.
Option D is not the right approach because creating a new GCP organization and a new billing account will result in more administrative overhead and won't consolidate the costs into a single invoice.
Option C is the best approach because it involves migrating the acquired company's projects into your company's GCP organization and linking the migrated projects to your company's billing account. This approach will consolidate the costs of both GCP organizations onto a single invoice, making it easier to manage and pay for GCP services. Once the migration is complete, you can use the billing reports to get a consolidated view of the costs and usage of all the projects in your GCP organization.
