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Cloud Computing · Foundational

Showback

Reporting cloud costs to the teams or business units that incurred them without actually billing them.

Definition

Showback allocates costs using tags, accounts, subscriptions or projects and shares the results to build cost awareness and accountability. It is often a first step before chargeback and depends on consistent resource tagging and allocation of shared costs.

Example

A monthly report shows the marketing team spent $12,400 on cloud resources, but the cost stays in the central IT budget.

Exam tip

Showback informs; chargeback bills internally. Both rely on accurate tagging and metering.

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