[mmbleh]

Step one for me is just educating people on how cloud providers charge for resources. So many people don't understand everything that goes into an AWS bill.

Take AWS for example - everyone seems to account for lambda runtime cost, but a lot of people forget/ignore execution cost, API Gateway cost, bandwidth costs, etc. Or they'll account for S3 storage but not S3 API costs.

While good tagging certainly helps figure out where money is spent, sometimes it's too late since things have been built on bad architectures based on misunderstandings of charges.