Cloud cost drivers
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In this lesson
name the main drivers on a cloud bill.
Planned topics
- Compute: instance hours, container resources, serverless invocations; often the largest line.
- Storage: volume, snapshots, object storage tiers, backups kept too long.
- Data transfer: cross-zone, cross-region, and internet egress; easy to overlook.
- Managed services: databases, queues, search; billed by capacity or throughput.
- Idle and forgotten resources: unattached disks, old environments.
Draft outline details
Demonstration
A bill grouped by category with a pie of top ten line items; ask which are tied to load and which are fixed.
Check your understanding
Which driver is often overlooked in microservice designs?
Show answer
Data transfer between zones or regions.
Practice
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