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Cost & Impact Visibility

Cost Attribution

Summary

A service's recurring cost is measurable separately from aggregate spend, attributable through resource metadata, recorded over time, and accessible to its responsible team.

Standards

  1. std-cost-cost-attribution-01 A service's recurring infrastructure, platform, and managed-service cost MUST be measurable separately from aggregate organisational spend.
  2. std-cost-cost-attribution-02 A resource or managed service that supports metadata MUST have resource tags, labels, or equivalent metadata identifying its service, responsible team, and cost centre.
  3. std-cost-cost-attribution-03 A service's measured cost MUST be recorded over time so a sustained change in its spend can be identified.
  4. std-cost-cost-attribution-04 A service's measured cost MUST be included in reporting accessible to its responsible team.

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Cost Alerting

Summary

A service alerts its responsible team when measured or forecast cost exceeds a defined threshold, detects defined cost anomalies, and reassesses those criteria as spend drivers change.

Standards

  1. std-cost-cost-alerting-01 A service MUST have an automated alert that notifies its responsible team when measured or forecast cost exceeds a defined threshold comprising a cost amount and applicable period.
  2. std-cost-cost-alerting-02 A service SHOULD have an automated anomaly alert that notifies its responsible team when cost deviates from its expected baseline by a defined amount.
  3. std-cost-cost-alerting-03 A cost alert MUST identify the service, the measured or forecast cost, the applicable period, and the threshold or anomaly criterion that triggered it.
  4. std-cost-cost-alerting-04 A service's cost thresholds and anomaly criteria SHOULD be reassessed when its expected usage, architecture, or provider pricing changes.

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Environmental Impact Records

Summary

A service is expected to maintain a historical record of its measured energy consumption or estimated carbon footprint.

Standards

  1. std-cost-environmental-impact-records-01 A service SHOULD maintain a historical record of its measured energy consumption or estimated carbon footprint.

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