Your cloud bill is a personality test
Show me your invoice and I'll tell you what your team is afraid of.
Placeholder rant. Replace it with your own fury.
Nobody reads the bill until the bill reads them. Then it all comes out at once: the dev environment left running since spring, the logs kept forever “just in case”, and the managed service bought to avoid one meeting.
Every line item is a decision
Somebody chose it, or somebody chose not to choose. That second kind costs the most.
The cheapest resource is the one you turned off.
What to do on Monday
- Tag everything with an owner. No owner, no resource.
- Put the bill in front of the people who make the spend.
- Find out what each team is afraid of, then fix the fear, not the invoice.