I understand the appeal of avoiding dependence on a single cloud provider. Multi-cloud or cloud-agnostic infrastructure can reduce vendor lock-in, make it easier to move workloads when pricing…
I understand the appeal of avoiding dependence on a single cloud provider. Using portable tools can make it easier to move workloads, distribute services across providers, standardize team…
My Microsoft Azure free trial recently ended, and I upgraded to a pay-as-you-go subscription so I could continue practicing with services that require a billable subscription. Shortly afterward,…
Azure billing has become surprisingly difficult to interpret as I add more services. Each resource looks reasonably priced on its own, but the total monthly bill sometimes ends…
We need to move our Redshift cluster from the current RA3 instance setup to the newer configuration. We already have Redshift Reserved Instances, but they are not size-flexible,…
Azure billing can become surprisingly difficult to understand once several services are running together. Each resource may look reasonably priced on its own, yet the combined monthly bill…
I'm new to Azure and built a small web app for learning. I disabled auto-pause on the database because the free tier's pauses were inconvenient, then selected what…
I'm considering replacing or supplementing AWS NAT Gateways with FCK-NAT to reduce costs, especially since our workloads move several terabytes of traffic each month. Has anyone operated it…
My free-tier period is ending soon, and I still have nearly $150 in promotional credits remaining. If I add a credit card and switch to a paid account,…
My free-tier period is ending soon, and I still have nearly $150 in promotional credits. If I add a credit card and upgrade to a paid account, will…
I use Amazon SES, along with SNS for event notifications, but not EC2 or S3. My bill contains two line items that seem to represent the same outbound…
People often say that engineers do not care about cloud costs, but I'm not sure that is the right diagnosis. Engineers usually have immediate visibility into latency, errors,…
What instance families are people using for production workloads on Amazon EKS? Our cluster currently runs mostly Node.js microservices on T3 instances, and so far they've worked well.…
Around 60% of our virtual machines currently run on older B2ms or B2s sizes with temporary disks, and those sizes are no longer available for reservations. We don't…
I recently opened an AWS account and added UPI as the payment method. During setup, I authorized an autopay mandate for ₹15,000, and I'm worried that this amount…
I recently opened an AWS account and selected the Free Tier. During setup, I authorized a UPI autopay mandate for ₹15,000, and I'm worried that amount might be…
I'm setting up an Azure SQL Managed Instance for a college's CIS department, but the pricing estimate is around $1,400 per month, which is beyond our budget. Are…
I need to deploy an application on a cloud server for a school project and use Ansible to configure it. The school isn't providing any cloud accounts or…
I'm 27 and preparing to launch an MVP. When I opened my AWS account, I received $100 in standard credits and also signed up for a paid plan.…
For months, I assumed our Kubernetes cost problem required better tooling. Then we discovered that cluster CPU utilization was only around 25% because teams had heavily padded their…