Comparing cloud costs between different environments can be complicated. Let’s look at the different factors that should be considered when comparing costs between clouds.
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IS IT POSSIBLE TO COMPARE COSTS ACROSS CLOUDS?
A listener was asking for some guidance on how to build some tools to help them compare costs across clouds.
COMPARING COSTS IS VERY COMPLICATED, BECAUSE THE USE-CASES VARY SO MUCH.
- Not going to provide a definitive price/amount
- Not going to focus on cloud migration costs
Things to Consider:
- How long will a project use the resources? (short-term vs. long-term)
- How much will the project scale/grow, up or down? How frequently will it change?
- How complex is your project/application? How many components are involved?
- Are these centralized, shared resources or will they be used on a per-project basis?
- How do you currently account for costs? What’s included? What’s not (typically) accounted for? (e.g. centralized services)
- Do you have the ability to do various types of accounting for costs? (time, capacity, longer contracts, all-you-can-eat, etc.)?
- How is networking accounted for? (traffic, traffic flows, speed, ports, volume, etc.)
- How is the data center accounted for?
- Is a free-tier part of the expectation? Is a POC or Trial part of the expectation?
- Can your project be connected to the public internet? Can you provide usage metrics to external groups?
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