The weekend bill nobody asked for
It's Monday morning. Your team's AWS bill arrived Friday night. You skim it over coffee.
Staging RDS: running all weekend. Eight EC2 dev boxes: all on. Three ECS services your team uses for integration testing: all up. Nobody was in the office Saturday. One engineer pushed a single commit Sunday afternoon, then closed their laptop.
You're paying for 72 hours of "available" across 12 resources. The actual engineering work that happened over those 72 hours: maybe four hours, on one machine.
This isn't a spending problem. It's a visibility problem — and a structural one in how cloud resources are traditionally managed.
