Cloud-native teams have long embraced chaos engineering, game days, and incident response to build resilient, scalable systems. We prepare for failure. We plan for it. We test it. But when it comes to cloud cost overruns? We often react —after the damage is done. It’s time to treat cost anomalies like operational incidents , because that’s exactly what they are: unplanned events that threaten system health—just in a different column of your dashboard. The Myth of Infinite Cloud = The Risk of Infinite Cost The promise of the cloud is elasticity. But elasticity without control is a budgetary time bomb. We wouldn’t let developers deploy to production without testing. So why are teams still allowed to: Launch GPU instances without a use case? Leave unused dev environments running for weeks? Exceed monthly budget targets without warning? It’s not about blame. It’s about systems thinking . Just like latency, throughput, and availability, cost is an operational signal...
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