Cloud Costs
Cloud Cost Optimisation: Five Changes That Matter Most
Cost optimisation advice tends to start with the sophisticated techniques. These five unglamorous ones account for most of the savings available to…
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Cloud Insights
Practical explanations of the things that decide a cloud bill, a migration or a verification outcome.
Cloud Costs
How to Estimate a Monthly Cloud Bill Before You Commit
A repeatable method for turning an architecture into a number, accurate enough to make a decision with and quick enough to actually…
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Cloud Costs
The Hidden Cost of Managed Services
Managed databases, queues and Kubernetes save real engineering time. They also change your cost structure in ways the pricing page does not…
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Cloud Costs
VPS vs Hyperscaler: When the Cheaper Option Wins
Not every workload benefits from a platform with 150 services. A clear-eyed look at when the simpler, cheaper option is also the…
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Cloud Costs
Reading a Cloud Invoice: The Line Items That Matter
A walkthrough of how a cloud bill is structured, which lines deserve attention, and how to trace a charge back to the…
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Cloud Costs
What “Pay As You Go” Actually Means
The phrase appears on every cloud pricing page and hides a surprising amount of variation in what is metered, how finely, and…
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Cloud Costs
Set Up Billing Alerts Before You Deploy Anything
The single highest-value fifteen minutes in cloud administration, and the one almost everybody postpones until after it would have helped.
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Cloud Costs
On-Demand, Reserved and Spot: Which Pricing Model Fits Your Workload
Three ways to buy the same compute, at very different prices, with very different commitments. Picking the wrong one is expensive in…
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Data Egress Fees Explained: The Charge Nobody Budgets For
Getting data into a cloud platform is usually free. Getting it out is usually not. Here is why, and what it means…
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Why Your First Cloud Bill Is Higher Than You Expected
The gap between a pricing page and your first invoice is usually caused by the same five things. None of them is…
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