Two Sides of the Ledger

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Domain

SQL

Difficulty

hard

Seniority

L5

Problem

The FinOps team wants to reconcile actual cloud charges against budget allocations on a per-region timeline. Stack both sources together, treating charges as negative and allocations as positive, and compute a running balance per region. Return region, date, amount, and running balance, sequenced by region and date.

Summary

Two cost tables, one region. Which way does the balance tip?

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