Pricing Benchmarks

After failing to realize the savings that public cloud was supposed to deliver, there’s a growing trend of enterprises moving their applications back to on-premise infrastructure. The complaint—well-documented in tech circles—is the out-of-control spending in the cloud. My main observation has always been that enterprises tend to have applications that aren’t cloud-native and don’t scale

I was invited to speak at Interface 2024 – Seattle on the official topic of, “Navigating the Return: The Shift from Hyperscales to Private Cloud” as a guest of one of the sponsors of the event Wowrack. You can check out the video which is posted on YouTube here. During the talk, I explored some

Updated 4/2/25 If you’d prefer the video version of this post, please check it out here. Somewhere now, a CFO is yelling, “I’ll never scream at my hardware vendor again!” while looking at an AWS bill in the high 6 digits. I’ve felt that I’ve had the minority opinion with my concern that doing a

Cloud cost management – this term is widely known, but few people understand the immense details behind this process. Cloud services are a must-have for every business today – here cloud cost management is what unveils the hidden costs and wraps up the ultimate cost-effective deal for your business cloud requirements. But to understand the

Why is Cloud So Expensive is a question that no one wants to ask or answer after completing the challenging task of moving workloads out of legacy platforms. In this post, we look at one case study of a Software as a Service Provider (SaaS) that had predicable costs in private cloud and found themselves