Last week, my client sent me a shocking report of their recent monthly cloud bill. It suddenly doubled and their finance department flagged it during a routine review on Friday.

We'd already audited our infrastructure to make sure we weren't burning our cash on cloud resources so this was surprising. And I was about to get blamed for something I had no idea about🙆‍♂️.

When we investigated the issue, we found out our server has been secretly running at 99.98% CPU for the past 3 weeks. You won't believe what happened...