Cloud introduces new financial dimensions to security. This episode explores how cost optimization intersects with security, showing how excessive privileges or poorly controlled resources can drive unexpected expenses and risks. We explain how budgets, quotas, and automated guardrails ensure both financial discipline and security hygiene. Cost governance is increasingly seen as part of the shared responsibility for safe and sustainable cloud adoption.

Exam scenarios may frame this as a question of governance, requiring you to recognize where mismanaged cost controls lead to exposure. By mastering the link between cost and security, you’ll be able to balance organizational priorities while demonstrating exam-ready knowledge of operational guardrails. Produced by BareMetalCyber.com.