Keeping Your Cloud Costs Under Control

Tech writer David Strom offer this in-depth article on keeping your cloud costs suppressed. He writes: "Some cloud providers don’t make pricing available until you sign up for their service. Others hide pricing schedules behind complex formulae. And therein lies the challenge for an IT manager who wants to try to find the best-priced cloud: you have to read the fine print, and make sure you understand what is billable, how it is measured and priced, and when the meter starts (and stops) running. Let’s look at where you can get more precise cost information, as well as examine a few of the growing number of third-party comparison services that can help you get more control over your cloud costs."

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You know what's really budget-friendly? Use a cheap, poorly managed cloud service that crashes all the time like Amazon's or Microsoft's lol. You know how expensive proper electrical backup equipment and programmers who know what they're doing are? Lol, anyway the real truth is you can look into it all day and get verified, guaranteed quotes and think you're set. Then, once they have your data and your pricing guarantee period or contract or whatever expires, there's no stopping them from raising the price to whatever they want now that they have your data. And do they have to allow you to export all your data to switch services? Hell no!