Question

A large enterprise runs dozens of projects across multiple departments under one Cloud Billing account. Leadership complains that no team feels responsible for its own cloud spending, and finance cannot attribute costs to the business units that generate them. As a FinOps practice, what should the organization implement to make each department accountable for the costs it incurs?

Accepted Answer

Apply resource labels and use billing data with a showback/chargeback model to attribute and report costs back to each department

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Purchase committed use discounts for all projects to reduce the overall bill

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Move every department into a single shared project to simplify the billing report

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Enable customer-managed encryption keys so each department controls its own resources