Yup, absolutely useful. Also good for companies to know how they stack among peers in their industry.
Some are more difficult to figure out than others:
- Cost per tenant/customer
- Cost by environment
- Cost of/by change (i.e., introducing changes to app or architecture)
- Projecting costs into the future
- Margins, once factoring in other OpEx costs (huge implications given fast rising cloud costs and companies market cap being reduced as a result of increased costs)
- Pro forma capitalization can also be useful, if not required by some finance teams.