Introduced a monthly 'cost review' meeting and engineers actually started caring about cloud spend

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Nobody on the eng team looked at the AWS bill until it hit their inbox as a Slack alert. We started a 20-minute monthly review where each team owns their service's cost trend. Spend growth slowed from 18%/month to 4%/month within a quarter, with zero mandates — just visibility.