Tracking and understanding cloud resource usage has become an issue leading to incurring additional costs unnecessarily.
Managing cost involves a lot of paperwork which leads to mistakes, wastage of time and resources.
There are many cloud services that use different pricing schemes which often confuse the consumer and make it difficult to control the costs.
There are many challenges encountered in providing a cost estimate due to changing workloads and unscheduled consumption.
With multiple data centers or for out transfers, Data Transfer Costs assessment is often taken for granted.
Auto-scaling is not fully exploited, resulting in resource over provisioning and wastage during off-peak times.