Author name: Ragul Prakash

Six weeks into your team’s cloud certification training program, your finance department forwards you a cloud invoice with a one-line question at the top: “What is the excess cloud cost?” It’s a couple of thousand dollars heavier than last month, and nobody can say why. Two days of digging later, you have your answer. It’s a single instance, one of your cloud engineers spun up to practice for an exam and never switched off. That invoice is the real cost of cloud training, and it’s the one no spreadsheet saw coming. The exam fees were budgeted. The study subscription was […]