Comment by doctorpangloss

Price is supposed to cut in half every 3-4 years, if it isn't it is largely because cloud vendors can't bear to take less and hope there really is that much more volume of half as valuable computing to do.

The things they sell as an average CPU performance, etc are basically the average when their cloud began.

New public IP charges and Kubernetes base pricing both doubled my bill.

Spot pricing is kind of a black box, and it also makes no sense.

So you're proving my point. The tool cannot tell you the single most important factor in pricing.

Haa, yes, the scary "vendor lock-in" !

I challenge you : give me a single product that cannot be moved away, given some (cost or time).

At the same time, I again challenge you : give me a single product that you can move between providers with no cost nor time.

To that last one, you can actually find stuff. For instance, you could setup your nginx in instances, without any kind of interactions with the hosting provider. In which case, you limit yourself with what everybody can do, leaving all opportunities to only use the base minimal.

But wait .. are you not locked-in with nginx (or to use a better example: with redis) ?

Vendor lock-in is a scam to increase your bills. Because, in itself, everything is vendor locking. And it does not matter. Think your architecture, design your code, and act when necessary.

It is always more expensive. I haven’t moved any goalposts. What I am trying to show is that you don’t need a tool - indeed you don’t need to look at a single price of anything - to know why. It can be both more expensive and a better value though! If you can’t recruit people or what you do is boring or if you want to operate a business that loses money in the long run: those are some common reasons it can look cheaper when it’s not.