> it seems cloud costs are rarely a priority. Because they aren't a priority until they are. Execs will either turn a blind eye or simply won't understand th

> it seems cloud costs are rarely a priority. Because they aren't a priority until they are. Execs will either turn a blind eye or simply won't understand that it's a problem, until a massive purchase order lands in accounting and gets escalated to the highest levels. Now it's suddenly a problem and it is up to the operations/devops/SRE/name of the month/SecFinDeVOps to figure out how to reduce costs. Which is completely backwards as they are probably not the group who requested the resources in the first place.