Comment by doctorpangloss
Comment by doctorpangloss 3 days ago
So you're proving my point. The tool cannot tell you the single most important factor in pricing.
Comment by doctorpangloss 3 days ago
So you're proving my point. The tool cannot tell you the single most important factor in pricing.
Yep! You are agreeing with me. The tool measures a bunch of noise, essentially, since it cannot predict Amazon’s pricing roadmap. Whereas the Kubernetes ecosystem has plenty of valid forecasting tools, such as one which forecasts compute usage, that are valuable.
To that point, I believe it's possible to buy spend futures now in cloud costs and if you're doing that then technically it is possible to predict Amazon's pricing roadmap. I know for sure if Amazon themselves didn't (they do) third parties would (they do, DoIT is an example of one I know that does this but there are quite a few of these compute resellers out there).
But sometimes people are not near enough the spend or product support level where it makes sense to do that. I would gander, though, if you're running cloud cost tooling you probably are one of those people.
The single most important factor in pricing is accurately predicting the future, as we haven't invented time travel yet we're gonna call that a wash. Here's a tool that measures everything else.