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Update Google cloud billing data as Tier 1 data source

Clément Leroux requested to merge update-billing-data-tier into master

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Proposition to update Google Cloud Billing data from Tier 3 to Tier 1 data source:

As per the definition:

Tier 3:

  • Any data, process or related service that would not result in a immediate business impact if unavailable for more than 5 working days\
  • Affecting less then 5 business users

And:

Tier 1:

  • Any data, process, or related service that would result in a $X or higher business impact if unavailable for 24 hours\
  • Affecting more than 15 business users

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The specifications of the Google Cloud Billing data are the following:

  • Data, process, or related service that would result in a $X or higher business impact if available for 24 hours
    • If the Billing data is missing during the Finance end of month closure, the risk is at the level of our monthly spend: about $X.
    • We want engineers to catch cost incidents as soon as possible. $X per day is understating the risk taken by not giving immediate feedback on Cloud costs to engineers.

cc: @sshackelford @rtaira @james.shen @cdeleon_gitlab @dvanrooijen2

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Edited by Clément Leroux

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