Cloud Risk Isn't Theirs Anymore, It's Yours
Techstrong.IT, Thursday, July 10th, 2025
For years, you didn't really manage your cloud commitments. You outsourced the risk - and crossed your fingers.
Let's be honest: as IT leaders, we've trusted vendors to smooth usage patterns across customers. We've believed in marketplaces to create exit options for excess capacity. We've nodded along when engineering assured us they'd 'optimize away' any overages before they hit the books. We've operated in a world where massive financial commitments somehow didn't feel like actual commitments.
That era is over. AWS now says: 'If you sign a commitment, you own it.' Full stop.