Chargeback and Showback are two very different ways to manage costs within an organization.
Both methods have been used for decades to help organizations track costs and gain oversight over spending.
Showback merely reports the cost of cloud usage for transparency, while chargeback involves billing users or departments for their actual consumption.
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Showback
Showback is the process of reporting the costs of cloud services to the actual users, without charging them.
It raises awareness about cloud spending and encourage more efficient use of resources.
Chargeback
Chargeback is the process of charging the actual costs of cloud services back to the users.
This approach treats internal departments or teams as customers, billing them for their consumption of AWS resources.
