Cloud bills are easy to measure. The operational costs that come with keeping cloud environments running are harder to account for. That’s anything from tooling to monitoring and the people who make it all run. These costs often exceed the amount listed in your cloud bill, especially once you begin adding cloud providers, decide to go regional or implement cloud bursting.
Venture capitalists Andreessen Horowitz called this the “trillion dollar paradox.” While the cloud gives companies the agility they can’t live without, in the long…
