I'm surprised utility-based software pricing isn't being pursued more. The cloud providers are the natural point to bill. Currently they sell computing resourc

I'm surprised utility-based software pricing isn't being pursued more. The cloud providers are the natural point to bill. Currently they sell computing resources wholesale to others who then somehow need to monetize it. (I mean raw cycles, storage and bandwidth are worthless on their own) As a software user, paying a simple usage-based fee that includes compute, storage and software fees would be ideal. As a cloud provider having people develop product that could be used to sell their own base product at no development risk of their own would be advantageous. Also as a software development group not having to deal with the complexities of scaling the platform can have advantages.