What Does Cloud Waste Mean?

Cloud waste is what happens when cloud services remain unused or underused. Cloud waste is becoming an important concern for companies that lease software-as-a-service (SaaS), platform-as-a-service (PaaS) and infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) cloud services from public cloud providers.

Techopedia Explains Cloud Waste

There are many stakeholders that should be concerned about cloud waste: FinOps and Finance departments are generally more inclined to try and get these costs under control and cloud engineers are often the ones tasked with managing the process.