The first thing to understand about infrastructure cost is that you can generally categorize it into a few main areas of focus. The areas are listed below in descending order of how much the bucket contributes to overall infra cost in general for most company's. Cloud Provider services may provide abstractions of these buckets, for instance serverless computing, but at their core each service can still be categorized into one of these 3 buckets of infra spend.
There are some basic cloud optimizations that apply to all resources, regardless of what service is running. Further optimizations or taking action on these recommendations may require more detailed understanding of the application or service running.
There are generic cost dimensions that apply to all company's, as well as some specific dimensions that are similar to other company's, but we define below.
This could also be called a "product", the two are interchangeable, and this can refer to internal or external services.
