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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