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Saving people from learning how to use Cost Explorer, Storage Lens, Cost and Usage Reports - and then taking 1 hour to study documentation - sounds to me like a legitimate market opportunity.

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Not really. Sometimes you actually have to understand things. If you're so concerned about your billing, someone on your team should probably invest a freaking hour to understand it. If that can't happen, you are just setting yourself up for failure.

I've been learning the ins and outs of the major 3 providers cloud billing setups for the last year, and I'm just getting started. This is not a 1 hour job, but you're right that someone in your team needs to understand it.

At my last job we had a team spend an entire quarter just to help visualize and properly track all of our AWS expenditures. It's a huge job.

Not confused why there is talk about software developer shortage when it seems a good amount of them work on this kind of nonsense. Talk about bs jobs.

If you are willing and able to spend an entire team for a quarter, I think you'd be better off for quite a while to just license Cloudability (now maybe Apptio). Its face value isn't "cheap", but for most companies, I think it's going to be cheaper than a team for a quarter plus the on-going maintenance of that tech.

(We're a long-time Cloudability customer; no other connection/conflict of interest here.)

its a lot more than an hour, in my experience

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