Spending sensibly.
WHAT TO TRACK
Total spend, monthly, in your own currency Cost per service Anything growing
WHY YOUR OWN CURRENCY
Foreign-billed services change cost without the provider changing price.
WHAT COMMONLY WASTES MONEY
Resources provisioned and forgotten Non-production environments running continuously Over-provisioned capacity Storage accumulating Backups retained indefinitely
WHAT TO DO
Set billing alerts Tag or label resources so ownership is clear Review monthly Shut down non-production environments outside working hours
WHY TAGGING MATTERS
Untagged resources become unremovable, because nobody knows what they do.
WHAT TO RIGHT-SIZE
Anything provisioned larger than measurement justifies.
WHAT TO FIX BEFORE ADDING CAPACITY
Inefficiency.
WHY
It is usually cheaper than accommodating it.
WHAT TO REVIEW ANNUALLY
Every service, and whether it is still used.
WHAT TO ASSIGN
Ownership of the bill, to a specific person.
