What breaks now
Usage, pricing, cost and billing sit in different places.
- Provider dashboards, customer logs and cloud bills do not talk to each other. Nobody can say which model, used by which customer, drove this month's cost.
- The cloud bill arrives 30 days later, after the spend has happened.
- A few accounts consume most of the compute, and without per-account data you cannot tell which ones.
- Every price change needs a development cycle.
- Finance spends days each month matching provider invoices against customer activity.