AWS Cost Isn’t Just Finance — It’s an Engineering Problem

Most teams treat cloud cost as a finance problem. But the root cause is usually engineering. Bills spike, dashboards grow, alerts fire — but the underlying issue rarely gets fixed. That idea stood out to me while reading about an approach where AWS cost was handled like an SRE problem — using the same mindset applied to reliability and performance. Instead of asking “why is the bill high?”, the focus shifts to: Where does unnecessary spend originate in the system? What patterns keep repeating in