Cloud Billing

These topics provide us foundational common shared knowledge and terminology to talk about cloud billing.

• What exactly do cloud providers charge us for?
  • Nodes / Virtual Machines
  • Home directory
  • Network Fees
  • Object storage
  • LoadBalancers
  • Access to the external internet
  • Other Persistent Disk Storage
  • Kubernetes Cluster management
  • Image Registry
  • Logs
• Billing accounts
  • GCP
  • AWS
  • Azure
• Billing reports
  • Billing reports in the web console
  • Programmatic access to billing information
• Cloud billing tools
  • Using tags to separate costs
  • Budget alerts