Question

Your organization has a single billing account linked to 40 projects. The finance team wants to identify which specific project incurred the highest Compute Engine costs last month, and they want to do this directly in the Cloud Console without setting up any external tooling or exports. What is the most direct way to provide this information?

Accepted Answer

Open the Billing account's Reports page and group costs by project, then filter by the Compute Engine service.

Answer

Enable a BigQuery billing export and write a SQL query that aggregates cost by project.

Answer

Create a separate budget with alerts for each of the 40 projects and compare the alert thresholds.

Answer

Ask each project owner to open the project's Compute Engine dashboard and report their monthly spend.