[saulpw]

How about starting with the obvious? Doing nothing because you can't figure out how to do everything, is letting the perfect be the enemy of the good. Or maybe they don't have the incentives, as per the GP.

[jiggawatts]

Every time this debate comes up, I point that there are cost-limited subscriptions for Azure, but only for Visual Studio Subscriptions and the like.

The cloud vendors are capable of solving this problem, they just refuse to.

Unlimited spending by customers is precisely what they want.