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5 changes: 2 additions & 3 deletions deploy-manage/deploy/elastic-cloud/google-cloud-platform-marketplace.md
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# Google Cloud Platform Marketplace [ec-billing-gcp]

Subscribe to {{ecloud}} directly from the Google Cloud Platform (GCP). You then have the convenience of viewing your {{ecloud}} subscription as part of your GCP bill, and you do not have to supply any additional credit card information to Elastic.
Subscribe to {{ecloud}} directly from the Google Cloud Platform (GCP). You then have the convenience of viewing your {{ecloud}} subscription as part of your GCP bill, and you do not have to supply any additional credit card information to Elastic. Your investment in Elastic draws against your cloud purchase commitment.

Some differences exist when you subscribe to {{ecloud}} through the GCP Marketplace:

* There is no trial period. Billing starts when you subscribe to {{ecloud}}.
* Existing {{ecloud}} organizations cannot be converted to use the GCP Marketplace.
* New customers {{ecloud}} obtain a 7-day trial period. During this period, you can use a single deployment and three projects of {{ecloud}}. After this period, usage-based billing starts, unless you delete your cloud resources.
* Pricing for an {{ecloud}} subscription through the GCP Marketplace follows the pricing outlined on the [{{ecloud}}](https://console.cloud.google.com/marketplace/product/endpoints/elasticsearch-service.gcpmarketplace.elastic.co) page in the GCP Marketplace. Pricing is based the {{ecloud}} [Billing Dimensions](../../cloud-organization/billing/cloud-hosted-deployment-billing-dimensions.md).
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is this billing dimensions link valid for the serverless case?

definitely open to changing the front matter. should just do a quick read of the page to make sure that it's all appropriate for serverless.

  • this item I mentioned
  • the snapshot/restore case - we don't offer this for serverless. could edit this with a hint that this is for ECH deployments only.
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You're right that we should link to https://www.elastic.co/docs/deploy-manage/cloud-organization/billing/serverless-project-billing-dimensions too.
Ideally we'd have a single page to send user to when we want to talk about "EC billing dimensions". It would be helpful not just for GCP MP, but most references to cloud billing, including other MPs.

++ on mentioning that snapshot/restore is ECH only.

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we have this disambiguation section here that you could link to, but it also mentions specific serverless project dimensions: https://www.elastic.co/docs/deploy-manage/cloud-organization/billing#pricing-model

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++ good idea to use the subsection on that page!

I'm not sure how to add changes to another file to this PR, so I'll just describe it here:
I think that page would be even more effective if it was laid out this way, because of the ways eyes scan the page, and how hyperlinks stand out.

Each Elastic Cloud Serverless project type also has its own billing dimensions.

    [Elastic Cloud Hosted deployments billing dimensions](https://www.elastic.co/docs/deploy-manage/cloud-organization/billing/cloud-hosted-deployment-billing-dimensions)
    [Elastic Cloud Serverless billing dimensions](https://www.elastic.co/docs/deploy-manage/cloud-organization/billing/serverless-project-billing-dimensions)
        [Elasticsearch projects billing dimensions](https://www.elastic.co/docs/deploy-manage/cloud-organization/billing/elasticsearch-billing-dimensions)
        [Elastic Observability projects billing dimensions](https://www.elastic.co/docs/deploy-manage/cloud-organization/billing/elastic-observability-billing-dimensions)
        [Elastic Security projects](https://www.elastic.co/docs/deploy-manage/cloud-organization/billing/security-billing-dimensions)

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I'll pop this into a followup issue: #2610

* To access your billing information at any time go to **Account & Billing**. You can also go to **Account & Billing** and then **Usage** to view your usage hours and units per hour.

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