People with multiple projects running inside the Google public cloud can now manage payments for them all in one central place, Google announced today.
What’s more, Google is giving people more options for who can handle billing.
We know that sometimes you want another person (e.g., your accountant) to have access to your billing information but don’t want to grant them ownership permissions on your projects,” Dan Stokeley, a Google product manager, wrote in a blog post this morning. “You can now invite additional billing administrators from the Developers Console who can view and manage your billing details but are not automatically project owners.”
The announcements are small, but they could make Google easier for developers and even companies to adopt and stay on in the highly competitive public cloud market, where Microsoft and Amazon Web Services move hard and fast.
Google has spent time adding features to the nitty gritty of cloud billing. Earlier this year it announced a Cloud Pricing Calculator that estimates developers’ needs for storage, memory, CPU, and other resources. And late last year Google started previewing a way of creating a large file showing cloud-usage data that customers could then download or access through an application programing interface (API).
