Cost Analysis & Cloud Pricing Basics
Great performance at unsustainable cost is not success. You need to estimate and monitor cost drivers (compute, storage, egress, managed services).
Starting points
- AWS Pricing Calculator: https://calculator.aws/
- GCP Pricing: https://cloud.google.com/products/calculator
- Azure Pricing: https://azure.microsoft.com/pricing/calculator/
Key Points
- The main cost drivers (CPU, RAM, storage, egress) are understood.
- Lower-cost tiers and reserved or spot instances have been considered.
- Cost is being monitored, and budgets and alerts are set.
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- Last updated: 30.09.2025
- Updated by: GS