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Re:AWS now allows customers to pay for their usage in advance by YetAnotherNick on Wednesday July 21, 2021 @08:35AM (#27905419)
I think most of the cost for medium-large sized business are elastic(number of pods, bandwidth cost depends on requests per second, storage cost for many things increases linearly with users etc).
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Re:AWS now allows customers to pay for their usage in advance by akh on Wednesday July 21, 2021 @08:42AM (#27905485)
Yep - it seems to depend on the architecture too (e.g. companies that lift-and-shift to the cloud use VMs heavily). We're discussing ideas on https://github.com/infracost/infracost/issues/730, e.g. could CloudWatch be used to fetch the usage so user has context of what those elastic services used last week/month.
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Re:AWS now allows customers to pay for their usage in advance by YetAnotherNick on Wednesday July 21, 2021 @09:46AM (#27906181)
Didn't imagined that this functionality would be present. Looks very useful and I would try it out for my terraform setup!
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