Platform & DevOps·What the platform costs
each team is told what they spent last month, and nothing moves between budgets as a result.
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Also calledcost visibility, cost reporting
Reporting infrastructure costs back to the teams that incurred them, without transferring the money. It is informational, which is both its weakness and the reason it is easy to introduce — no finance process changes and nobody has to defend a budget. In practice visibility alone moves the biggest, most obvious numbers and does very little about the long tail.