> I think this points more to poor and ungoverned use of Snowflake and Cloud than it does organisational dysfunction. This is a "blame the user" argument that

> I think this points more to poor and ungoverned use of Snowflake and Cloud than it does organisational dysfunction. This is a "blame the user" argument that I hear a lot. It's true that in many or most cases users being super attentive can mitigate cost issues. But it's also true that this turns out to be very difficult in practice for a variety of reasons like scattered responsibility, complexity of cloud costs, and vendor cost models that encourage spending. For my own money this problem looks like a business opportunity for vendors that offer customers ways to avoid it. The high margin era of cloud services with 10x markup on compute (e.g., Snowflake) won't last forever.