SME IT

Cloud cost allocation is the discipline of attributing every pound of your cloud bill to the team, product or customer that caused it. Without it, a monthly invoice is a single number that nobody owns and nobody can act on. This guide covers what allocation means in practice, why tagging standards fail, how showback differs from chargeback, how to split shared costs fairly, which native tools do the work on AWS, Azure and Google Cloud, what the exercise costs to run, and a realistic 90-day rollout for a business with no dedicated FinOps team.