I believe that the current generation of cloud cost management products miss the mark.If you’ve been through a round of trying to get your head around your public cloud spend, and you were left disappointed, please read on.Here’s what we all know:Nobody’s actually realizing the “40% savings” they were promised when they signed up for their cloud cost management product, because the majority of resources are untagged and the recommendations you’re getting for what to do about it are beyond useless.When you were first “advised” by this product to turn off resources that would disable critical infrastructure, you lost trust in the whole process.Further, you believe that smart, capable engineers shouldn’t have to waste valuable time manually tagging resources just to figure out who used them.Personally, I have been in your shoes: before I founded Yotascale, I ran Platform Engineering at PayPal.I built the PayPal cloud infrastructure and my engineering teams made significant innovations in the area of manageability and system administration. We helped scale the PayPal Developer Platform from zero to a billion dollars in payments volume. We were responsible for all core infrastructure at PayPal, processing 5 million transactions per day.Then, I founded Yotascale to bring this expertise in large scale, mission-critical, cloud infrastructure management to companies beginning to use cloud services as well as those that are well on their way.I have written about computer science, and specifically about resource management for large scale, distributed systems. Sometimes, smart people have been generous enough to publish this work.Please connect with me if you are irritated enough with your cloud cost management product to merit a discussion, or if you want to chat about the wonderful trials and tribulations of life as an engineer.I look forward to meeting you.