Have you seen large cloud provider billing?????

There is a whole segment of tech designed around helping you understand and manage cloud costs, through consultations, automations, etc. It has spawned companies and career paths!

Ime, cloud cost centres are intentionally confusing and annoying. I get emails telling me to check their dashboard for billing info which I inevitably never do. It’s designed that way.

Yes but they don’t hide that behind ideological nonsense, they own up to it. They’re a good faith actor with a high price tag