Identifying and Eliminating Idle Compute Waste in Cloud Environments
Structural incentives, not awareness, lock cloud waste in place year after year.
Tobias Wendler
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Cloud Cost Architecture
8 stories in Cloud Cost Architecture.
Consumption-Based vs Reserved Capacity Pricing for Variable Workloads
Reserved pricing saves money on steady workloads; consumption pricing wins on spiky ones.
Tobias Wendler
Egress Fee Economics and Their Impact on Cloud Architecture Decisions
Egress fees invisibly drive cloud architecture choices toward vendor lock-in.
Tobias Wendler
Zero-Egress Object Storage Providers Compared
AI workloads reveal egress as the hidden cost multiplier that locks teams into single clouds.
Tobias Wendler
Right-Sizing Serverless Compute Memory and Concurrency Settings
Tune memory, CPU, and concurrency together or risk wasting money.
Simone Achebe
Total Cost of Ownership Comparison for WAF and DDoS Protection Tiers
Hidden costs in bot traffic, bandwidth, and engineering labor often dwarf the advertised plan price.
Tobias Wendler
Object Storage Cost Optimization for High-Request-Rate Workloads
Request charges and egress fees dwarf storage costs at scale, requiring granular optimization.
Priya Nanthakumar
Multi-Cloud Vendor Lock-In Risk Assessment for Platform Teams
Platform teams can map hidden lock-in risk by auditing actual dependencies, not perceived ones.
Rafael Quinones-Park