Deployment & Scaling · Foundation
Opening a Google Cloud Project for AI Work Without a Surprise Bill
Projects, billing accounts, budget alerts, quotas, service accounts and Application Default Credentials — the ten-minute setup that prevents the three classic beginner disasters.
- 55 min lesson
- beginner level
- Google Cloud AI Track
- Narrated presentation
What you’ll learn
- Project as the unit of resources, IAM and billing attribution
- Free trial credit vs Always Free tier — and that neither covers Gemini inference for long
- Budgets alert but do not cap spending; hard caps require a Pub/Sub function
- Application Default Credentials via gcloud instead of pasted API keys
- Least-privilege service accounts (roles/aiplatform.user) over Editor
- Per-project, per-region, per-model quota and why 429s appear early
- Deleting the project as the only reliable teardown
Inside this lesson
A narrated, slide-by-slide presentation with 1 prediction exercise, 1 knowledge check, 3 videos. You answer as you go, and the platform checks your work.