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Platform & DevOps·What the platform costs

the spend actually lands on your team's budget, and now somebody senior cares about the idle staging cluster.

Chargeback

Also calledinternal billing, cost recovery

Charging infrastructure costs to the consuming team's budget for real. It aligns incentives far more forcefully than showback, and it imports real costs: teams begin optimising for their own bill rather than the whole, arguing about shared-cost allocation, and occasionally choosing worse architectures to avoid a chargeable line. Shared platform costs are where the arguments concentrate, since any allocation of them is arbitrary.

Commonly confused with