The catalog shows cost metrics tied directly to how data is stored, moved and used, since cloud turns data cost into operating expense and placement choices incur ingress, egress and compute costs. Automation opportunities: track the movement, storage and usage costs of data assets automatically and expose them through the catalog; support cost management and processing optimization that is automated and driven by policy. Certification test steps: confirm the catalog exists and scanning recurs; produce a data cost report for a given asset; create an asset and check that its storage, movement and usage costs are tracked; change an asset so its costs change and observe the change over time. The information model distinguishes storage, ingress, egress, compute and network cost.
The graph holds this control, the 0 it maps to, and the evidence behind each claim, over MCP and REST.