Cloud Native

Learn about the unintended environmental impact and cost of the proliferation of cloud services, frameworks, and "throw an other service at it" development.

The move to the cloud promised to save users money and give them insights into their usage and costs. However, the opposite happened. A 2025 report from AAG stated that around 82% of respondents found cloud spending challenging. A cloudzero report from 2024 states that more than 20% of respondents had no clear idea of their cloud costs, with reports for large users sometimes consisting of thousands of rows of hard-to-read usage data.