Cloud cost surprises: what finance should watch
Why your cloud bill keeps growing and what to do about it.
Cloud bills grow quietly. Common causes:
- **Orphaned resources** — Old servers, storage, and databases nobody owns
- **Over-provisioning** — Paying for capacity you don't use
- **Data transfer fees** — Moving data between regions or out to the internet
- **Forgotten environments** — Dev/test environments left running 24/7
**Monthly habit:** One person reviews the bill line by line. Not to cut everything — but to know what you're paying for.