Shared routes create shared blindness
One untagged path for every service makes utilization analytics optional theatre.
Application teams serving Hong Kong clients often inherit a single egress pattern that pre-dates the current product. Every feature inherits that blindness.
Separating environments is table stakes. Separating tags by feature and tenant is what lets utilization analytics survive the next launch. Application Traffic Attribution starts there.
Before celebrating a cost drop, list which routes and tags changed beside the chart. Pipeline hygiene and product thrift look identical until you can tell them apart.