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Engineering Practice

Showback before chargeback: cloud cost reports engineering teams actually read

Ryan Pham · May 13, 2026 · 6 min read

Sending teams a monthly cost spreadsheet changes nothing. Charging their budgets before they trust the numbers starts arguments. This guide covers a showback program that works: ownership mapping, a short report with actions, budgets per service, and when to move to chargeback.

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Cloud & Infrastructure

Allocating Kubernetes costs to teams: requests vs usage, idle and shared costs

Ryan Pham · Feb 26, 2025 · 6 min read

A shared Kubernetes cluster shows up on the cloud bill as a few lines of EC2 and EBS. Turning that into cost per team needs decisions: allocate by requests or usage, what to do with idle capacity, and how to split shared services. This guide covers the model we use and why.