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Identity and Access Management (IAM) includes fine-grained permissions, which lets you grant or revoke access to specific actions for individual users. To simplify the process of assigning permissions to users, IAM roles combine these fine-grained permissions into related groups. Billing has predefined roles, such as Billing Account Administrator or Billing Account Viewer, which work for most users. But, if they don't fit your needs, custom roles let you to grant more specific sets of permissions.
Create a custom roleCustom roles are created on the organization, and then are applied to any billing account in the organization. Creating and Managing Custom Roles in the IAM documentation describes how to configure a custom role, including which permissions are necessary.
Caution: When you create a custom role, you're prompted to specify Project or Organization. You must select Organization. Project roles can't be applied to billing accounts.After custom roles are created, you can grant custom roles to users just like standard, predefined roles. Learn how to update billing permissions.
Example custom roleImagine you want to give someone the ability to edit cost management features, such as budget alerts and billing export. The relevant permissions are:
billing.budgets.createbilling.budgets.updatebilling.accounts.updateUsageExportSpecWith the predefined roles, to apply these permissions you need to grant the Billing Account Administrator role. But that role also includes permission to delete resource associations, cancel subscriptions, and close the billing account. If you didn't want your users to have those capabilities, you could instead create a custom role with only the three necessary permissions and name it Cost Management Administrator. Then, you could apply that custom role in combination with the Billing Account Viewer role to any users that should have broad cost management permissions but no ability to edit other account properties.
Permission association and inheritanceYou can grant billing permissions at the billing account level or at the project level. Most billing permissions belong on the billing account, so roles containing those permissions should be associated with the billing account. Other billing permissions instead belong on a project and need to be associated with the project instead of the billing account.
For example, associating a project with a billing account requires the billing.resourceAssociations.create permission on the billing account and also the resourcemanager.projects.createBillingAssignment permission on the project. This is because project permissions are required for actions where project owners control access, while billing account permissions are required for actions where billing account administrators control access. When both are involved, both permissions are necessary.
Just like other IAM permissions, all billing permissions inherit from higher levels of the billing hierarchy. For example, a user with a role containing billing.accounts.close on an organization can close any billing account within that organization. However, some permissions only apply at higher levels. For example, the billing.accounts.list permission doesn't do anything when applied to an individual billing account, but a user with a role containing billing.accounts.list on an organization can list all billing accounts within that organization.
The following tables describe common billing activities, the permissions required to perform those activities, and the resource that those permissions apply to.
Account management Action Permission Resource Get basic account information (for example, account name, currency, or if the account is open or closed)billing.accounts.get Billing account Upgrade from free trial billing.accounts.update Billing account Rename account billing.accounts.update Billing account Change purchase order number billing.accounts.update Billing account Close account billing.accounts.close Billing account Reopen closed account billing.accounts.reopen Billing account Key Point: Most billing actions require billing.accounts.get. You might consider giving a role with this permission to all users who need billing account access. Billing account hierarchy Action Permission Resource List accounts in organization billing.accounts.list Organization Create accounts in organization billing.accounts.create Organization Move account into organization billing.accounts.create Organization billing.accounts.move Billing account Move account between organizations billing.accounts.removeFromOrganization Old organization billing.accounts.create New organization billing.accounts.move Billing account Cost information
Cost view permissions can be limited to specific projects, or granted on a billing account to view all costs for a billing account.
Action Permission Resource View costs and usage for a billing account*billing.accounts.getSpendingInformation Billing account View costs and usage for a project* billing.resourceCosts.get Project resourcemanager.projects.get Project * Note: A user with billing.accounts.getSpendingInformation permission on the billing account can view costs for the entire billing account including all of its projects. If you want to limit a user to viewing the costs only for specific projects, give the user the billing.resourceCosts.get and resourcemanager.projects.get permissions on each project instead of setting the billing account level permission. Payment information
The payment profile includes customer name, address, and payment method.
Action Permission Resource View payment profilebilling.accounts.getPaymentInfo Billing account Update payment profile billing.accounts.updatePaymentInfo Billing account View prices only for the SKUs that have incurred usage billing.accounts.getPricing Billing account View custom contract prices per SKU for a billing account billing.accounts.getPricing Billing account View costs and usage for a billing account billing.accounts.getSpendingInformation Billing account Resource associations
Moving a project between billing accounts requires the same permissions as removing it from the original billing account and associating it with the new one.
Action Permission Resource View project associationsbilling.resourceAssociations.list Billing account resourcemanager.projects.get Project Associate project with billing account billing.resourceAssociations.create Billing account resourcemanager.projects.createBillingAssignment Project Remove project from billing account billing.resourceAssociations.delete Billing account resourcemanager.projects.deleteBillingAssignment Project Budgets and spending alerts Action Permission Resource View the list of budgets for a Cloud Billing account billing.budgets.get Billing account billing.budgets.list Billing account Update a budget that's scoped to a Cloud Billing account billing.budgets.update Billing account Create a budget for a Cloud Billing account billing.budgets.create Billing account View the list of budgets that are scoped to a single project resourcemanager.projects.get Project billing.resourceCosts.get Project billing.resourcebudgets.read Project Update a budget that's scoped to a single project resourcemanager.projects.get Project billing.resourceCosts.get Project billing.resourcebudgets.read Project billing.resourcebudgets.write Project Create a budget that's scoped to a single project resourcemanager.projects.get Project billing.resourceCosts.get Project billing.resourcebudgets.read Project billing.resourcebudgets.write Project Key Point: A user with billing-account-level permissions on the billing account can manage budgets for the entire billing account, including any of its projects. If you want to limit a user to managing budgets that are scoped only to a single project, give the user project-level permissions on the project instead of setting billing-account-level permissions. For more information, see Create, edit, or delete budgets and budget alerts Credits and promotions Action Permission Resource View credits list, including original and remaining amount billing.credits.list Billing account Redeem a promotional code billing.accounts.redeemPromotion Billing account billing.accounts.update Billing account Policy
The policy defines which users have access to which resources on a billing account. For information on creating or modifying custom roles, see the Create a Custom Role section, above.
Action Permission Resource View roles on account, including associated usernamesbilling.accounts.getIamPolicy Billing account Give roles to users on account billing.accounts.setIamPolicy Billing account Export specifications
The export specification defines where to send a copy of all usage-related data, and can contain the name of a BigQuery dataset.
Action Permission Resource View current export specification (Cloud Storage bucket or BigQuery dataset to export usage data to)billing.accounts.getUsageExportSpec Billing account Modify export specification billing.accounts.updateUsageExportSpec Billing account
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