Topic
Cost
18 articles on cost.
- Providers
Moving to DigitalOcean: a business owner's guide
What DigitalOcean does well, the six services you'll actually use, honest pricing with worked numbers, and the point where teams outgrow it.
- Providers
Moving to Oracle Cloud (OCI): a business owner's guide
Where OCI genuinely wins (Oracle databases, egress-heavy workloads, raw price), its core services, and an honest read on who should actually pick it.
- Guides
Cloud backup and disaster recovery, explained
Backup vs DR, what RPO and RTO really mean, the four strategy tiers from backup-restore to hot standby, honest cost tradeoffs, and how to test any of it.
- Cost
How to rightsize cloud resources
A practical rightsizing process: the metrics that reveal oversized instances, the thresholds to act on, and worked numbers on what downsizing saves.
- Cost
On-premise vs cloud: total cost of ownership
An honest TCO comparison with a worked 5-year example: the on-prem costs that hide in other budgets, the cloud costs that surprise, and when cloud loses.
- Cost
Reserved instances vs on-demand vs savings plans
How cloud commitment models work across AWS, Azure, and GCP, the break-even math with worked dollar numbers, and a sane strategy for what to commit.
- Glossary
CDN (Content Delivery Network)
A CDN caches your content on servers near your users so it loads fast worldwide. Plain-terms definition, provider names, and why it matters in a migration.
- Glossary
Egress fees
Egress fees are what cloud providers charge for data leaving their network. What they cost per GB, where they hide, and why they shape migrations.
- Glossary
Managed database
A managed database is one the cloud provider runs for you: patching, backups, failover. What it covers, what it costs, and why it matters when you migrate.
- Providers
Moving to AWS: a business owner's guide
What AWS is actually good at, the five services you'll really use, the pricing gotchas, and when AWS is the right pick, from engineers who migrate for a living.
- Providers
Moving to Microsoft Azure: a business owner's guide
When Azure is the right cloud, especially for Microsoft shops, the core services you'll use, hybrid licensing savings, real pricing gotchas, and how the migration goes.
- Playbooks
Cloud Migration Strategy: The 6 Rs, and How to Pick One per Application
Rehost, replatform, repurchase, refactor, retire, retain, what each migration strategy costs, when it applies, and how to assign one to every app.
- Playbooks
Lift-and-Shift vs Replatform vs Refactor: The Real Tradeoffs
The three ways to move an app to the cloud, compared on cost, risk, and time-to-value, plus a decision framework and worked numbers for each path.
- Cost
9 ways to avoid cloud bill shock
Nine concrete ways to stop surprise cloud bills: budgets and alerts, egress traps, idle resources, rightsizing, commitments, and dev environments left on.
- Cost
AWS vs Azure vs Google Cloud pricing, compared
Vendor-neutral comparison of AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud pricing: compute, storage, egress, free tiers, and committed-use discounts, with a side-by-side table.
- Cost
How to estimate your cloud bill before you migrate
A step-by-step method to estimate cloud costs before migrating: compute, storage, egress, and managed services, with a full worked example in dollars.
- Glossary
Autoscaling
Autoscaling adds compute capacity when demand rises and removes it when demand falls, automatically. What it is, how it works, and what it changes when you migrate.
- Glossary
Object storage
Object storage holds files as objects in buckets, accessed over HTTP, cheap, durable, effectively unlimited. Plain definition, a real example, and migration relevance.