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King of Pentacles
"The Cloud Bill"
Pentacles · Infrastructure▲ Upright +2
The cloud bill that is large, understood, and justified. Reserved instances purchased, right-sizing completed, cost allocation tags on every resource. The King of Pentacles is financial mastery of infrastructure — not cheap, but intentional. Every dollar maps to a service that earns its keep.
▽ Reversed -2
The AWS bill arrived and nobody can explain the $47,000 line item for data transfer. There are NAT gateways in regions you do not operate in and a forgotten Elasticsearch cluster running six r5.4xlarge instances indexing logs from a service decommissioned in Q2. The King of Pentacles reversed is cloud spend without governance. Finance has questions.