New Delhi, Aug. 12 -- In today's digital-first economy, cloud infrastructure is no longer just an operational line item tucked away in the IT budget. It is the central financial engine driving enterprise agility, product development, and customer experience. However, as organizations rapidly scale their workloads across complex multi-cloud ecosystems (combining Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform, and private environments), a major corporate challenge has emerged: unpredictable, escalating cloud expenditures.

For modern Chief Financial Officers (CFOs), managing "cloud sprawl" has become a top operational priority. What began as a promise of flexible, pay-as-you-go pricing has, in many cases, devolved into a maze o...