[Intro]

Region: Frankfurt.
Environment: Transformation Sandbox.
Monthly cost: increasing.
Owner: field unavailable.

[Verse]

The service began as a four-week test,
A place where the future could safely be stressed.
Three clusters, two gateways, storage in tiers,
Built for a workshop abandoned for years.

The engineers left when the funding moved.
The project was renamed, then quietly removed.
But scheduled processes continued each night,
Copying empty data from left to right.

A premium database waited alone.
A load balancer balanced no load.
Backups preserved what nobody made,
Thirty-six copies of an empty estate.

[Pre-Chorus]

No login since March. No ticket since May.
No service catalogue knows what to say.
The dashboard is healthy. The owner is none.
Every green check mark means the billing still runs.

[Chorus]

Cloud cost without a cloud owner,
Every month the bill grows bolder.
No one works there, no one knows it,
Still the meter keeps on rolling.

Every empty server proves it:
Unowned work is never finished.

[Verse]

Nadine asks Infrastructure who can close the account.
They answer, "We need an authorised amount."
Security requires a named data lead.
Legal asks whether deletion was agreed.

The former sponsor now leads Growth in France.
He says the environment was "part of a chance."
The architect recalls a deadline in spring,
But cannot remember who approved anything.

An engineer named Tom finds an old chat thread:
"Do not delete until Phase Two," someone said.
Phase Two was cancelled. The message remained.
A single line kept the whole service sustained.

[Chorus]

Cloud cost without a cloud owner,
Every process serves the order
Of a sentence no one questioned
After all the work had ended.

We can freeze the teams that need it,
But cannot stop what has no leader.

[Bass Interlude]

[Bridge]

The empty system speaks: "I wake at midnight. I copy the void."
Nadine watches the usage flat, the cost line rising above the graph.
No villain appears here, no hacker is found—

Only a future nobody shut down.

[Build-up]

Tag the owner.
There is no owner.

Name the product.
There is no product.

Find the user.
There is no user.

Stop the service.

Approval required.

[Final Chorus]

Cloud cost without a cloud owner,
Now the board must answer for it.
If no leader claims the purpose,
No renewal earns protection.

Hear the calculator counting—
Building the case Nadine is mounting.

[Outro]

The shutdown request enters review.
The service continues through another night.

At midnight, it copies the void.

At midnight, Finance records the charge.
