Overview#
Cloud Pricing Cloud costs are always a big concern.Generically, most Cloud Service Providers charge for resources:
- Cloud computing
- DataStore capacity
- Data Transfer Outbound
- Normally there is no cost for Inbound or inter-Cloud Region
There may be discount for:
- Different Cloud Regions
- Reserving Cloud Resources
- Dedicated Instances of Cloud computing
- Paying up-front
- Spot - basically enables you to bid a price and you can choose whatever price that you want for instance capacity
- May be only be available at unscheduled times
- May be interrupted preempted
Cloud Pricing AWS#
AWS Cloud Pricing generally follows:- Pay-as-you-go On demand
- Some services are by the second and some by the hour and some by the ...
- Reserved
- All Up-Front (AURI)
- Partial up-front (PURI)
- No up-front (NURI)
- Spot - Billed by hour
- Dedicated Host - may be required for Regulatory compliance requirements that may not support multi tenant
