Cloud Cost Governance: Architecting Accountability And Business Value
Imagine this. A product team rolls out a change to improve reliability. The deployment succeeds. Traffic grows. Weeks later, cloud costs increase, and the finance team asks what changed. No one can point to a single decision or owner. This situation is common in cloud environments. Infrastructure scales automatically, and costs are shaped by technical choices made across engineering, data, and product teams. Most organizations review cloud spending after it has already occurred. Ownership is unclear.
