An organization is planning its cloud expenditure. What should the organization do to control costs?

Cloud spending is operational expenditure (OpEx), not capital expenditure (CapEx); treating it as CapEx misrepresents the financial model and undermines budgeting accuracy.

Cloud resources do have costs tied to usage, provisioned capacity, storage, and network egress, so assuming no infrastructure cost is factually incorrect.

Cloud pricing follows an operational expenditure model where costs fluctuate based on actual resource consumption such as compute hours, storage, and data transfer. Because usage can spike or drop unexpectedly, organizations must review costs frequently to identify waste, right-size resources, and avoid bill shock. Continuous monitoring tools like cloud cost dashboards enable this ongoing visibility.

Reviewing costs only when an SLO is breached is reactive and ignores routine cost optimization, which should be independent of service-level performance.