Fast-moving teams spin up resources everywhere. Different accounts, tags, pricing models and sandbox habits turn into surprise invoices. Finance can’t forecast; engineering gets blamed; everyone is reactive.
No clear allocation
Spend rolled up per cloud account; no product or team view to understand what drives costs.
Zombie resources
Idle volumes, over-provisioned clusters, forgotten test environments eating budget silently.
Missed discounts
Reserved Instance / Savings Plan opportunities ignored because no one owns them.
Budget shocks
End-of-month reconciliation → panic cuts that slow delivery and frustrate teams.