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Allocation & Accountability

Cost Allocation

The process of attributing every unit of cloud, data and SaaS spend to the team, product, feature or customer responsible for it.
Creates visibility into who or what drives spend and supports showback, chargeback, and unit-cost reporting.

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Allocation & Accountability

Allocation Rate

The share of total spend that has been successfully attributed to a named owner, expressed as a percentage.
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Allocation & Accountability

Chargeback

Billing allocated cloud costs directly to each team or business unit's budget, so cloud spend appears in their own P&L.
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Cost Centre

A defined unit of the business — team, product, department or project that owns a budget and is accountable for the spend attributed to it.
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