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Who actually owns cloud cost efficiency at your company: a central team or every engineering team? Defend your operating model.

Central teams optimise well and get ignored; federated teams own outcomes and drown in tooling. The mature answer is a hub-and-spoke split by decision type, and the interview tests whether you can say exactly who decides what.

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Central teams optimise well and get ignored; federated teams own outcomes and drown in tooling. The mature answer is a hub-and-spoke split by decision type, and the interview tests whether you can say exactly who decides what.

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