Cost of additional rework caused by choosing quick solutions instead of better approaches. Like taking shortcuts when building a house that require expensive fixes later.
Development teams regularly assess technical debt to decide when to refactor code for better long-term maintainability.
Technical debt is a software engineering and product management concept, not a cloud provider service. All major clouds offer tools (e.g., code scanning, CI/CD, observability) that can help identify and reduce technical debt, but there is no direct 1:1 managed service named “Technical Debt.”