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Tagging Resources at Creation So Spend Is Attributable to a Run or a Grant

The outcome says the run 'costs roughly what they predicted', and a prediction that is never checked against the bill is not a prediction. This is the only mechanism that closes the loop between the pilot estimate and the invoice, and the only way a researcher on a shared departmental account can separate their own grant's spend from a colleague's. The retroactive-tagging trap is what makes it a discipline rather than a report.

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Matching AWS Cost Management Tools to Cloud Spending Scenarios

Consumption-based cloud pricing decouples resource provisioning from immediate payment, producing an accountability gap in which spend accrues invisibly until billing; cloud cost management addresses…