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Cool tech, though I am personally sad that this is even a problem that needs solving. The fact that there's no price transparency, seemingly by design, in cloud
by rco8786 4y ago
Cool tech, though I am personally sad that this is even a problem that needs solving. The fact that there's no price transparency, seemingly by design, in cloud products is :(
- akh 4y agoWhen I started looking at cloud pricing in 2009 there were ~10K price points, today there are more than 3M. The cloud vendors focus on moving fast and continually release new services but there is more they could be doing to make it easy for engineers to understand the costs. Infra-as-code added another layer of complexity as now engineers have no idea what we're about to buy on AWS when we run "terraform apply" or similar checkout commands in other tools. All software has a cost, it's just not visible until it's too late - that's what we want to change.
- mikkergp 4y agoAre you concerned that there's no price transparency or that pricing isn't predictable? If so, I guess I'm curious how you define price transparency, since pricing in the cloud isn't opaque in the same way it is in medicine.
- rco8786 4y agoA little of both I guess.