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Ameen Abozaid
Planned lessonARC-021-L06

Demo: Larkspur's cloud cost model, line by line

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In this lesson

build the Larkspur cost model with ranges, preparing ARC-021-LAB1.

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Step by step

  1. Assumptions: orders per month, peak multiplier, page views, media size, data stored, environments (illustrative; confirm with the web shop data).
  2. Components: containers, managed database with standby, cache, search, object storage and CDN, queues, observability, security services, backups, DR copy.
  3. Compute each line as driver times price; mark confidence.
  4. Planned mistake: leaving out data transfer and log ingestion. Add them; show that they rise from 5 to 20 percent of the total in the model.
  5. Add non-prod environments and support plan.
  6. Present low, expected, and high monthly cost with the main uncertainty drivers.

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