Associate Cloud Engineer

Shutting down the entire project is the fastest way to stop all billing for its services, since it disables all resources at once rather than requiring you to locate and delete each resource individually. To shut down a project you need the Owner (Project Owners) IAM role, which includes the resourcemanager.projects.delete permission, not an Organization Administrator role (which governs the organization node, not individual project deletion). In the Google Cloud console, you locate the project, click Shut down, and confirm by entering the project ID, which stops all billing and resource usage for that project in minimal steps.