cloud economics . analysis
Cloud economics. The line items nobody reads.
Egress still eats more than half the bill. Five places to start.
Background
This is a fixture post for the cloud-economics topic. It stands in for real creator content during Phase 1 build.
Three things worth knowing
- Cost is never just infrastructure. It is people plus infrastructure plus decisions deferred.
- Budgets rarely fail because of the obvious line item. They fail because of a small one that compounds.
- The right structure usually exists. It is buried under years of local decisions.
What to do about it
Write the plan. Test it in a small room first. Kill what does not survive ten days of normal operations. Keep what does.
Boring is the feature.
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