Bottom 2% Services by Spend

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Domain

SQL

Difficulty

hard

Seniority

L4

Problem

FinOps is hunting for zombie services that cost almost nothing but still consume billing line items. Identify the bottom 2% of services by total cloud spend in May 2026 by bucketing them into 50 equal-sized percentile groups and returning those in the lowest bucket. Show the service name and total spend, from lowest up.

Summary

The bottom 2% of spenders. Who are they?

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