The average mid-market and enterprise organization now runs a mix of public cloud, private cloud, colocation, and on-premise infrastructure, managed by a rotating cast of internal staff and external providers. Spend keeps climbing, workloads land in the wrong environment, and nobody can produce a clean answer to what a given application actually costs to run. AI workloads are about to make it worse. The organizations that get this right treat cloud as an engineering and governance decision, not a procurement one.