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Cost ownership

Cost ownership lives with the team that uses the resource. Not with central FinOps. Not with finance. Not with the platform team. Central groups enable; the consuming team owns. The principle is the antidote to the "FinOps team owns the bill" anti-pattern, which guarantees waste because nobody who can fix anything is on the hook.

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