June 20, 2018

You're probably wasting money on the cloud

Just a few years ago, it was common wisdom among tech startups that the cloud was so expensive that at some reasonable scale you’d migrate to your own hardware in a colocation center. Recently, teams have grown wiser about total cost of ownership while cloud costs have fallen, so companies...

May 24, 2018

Cloud compute unit costs

One of the best features of Google Cloud Platform’s customer-friendly pricing is that with both Custom Machine Types and Committed Use Discounts, you pay independently for CPU and RAM instead of buying them in fixed ratios. This lets you optimize your cloud footprint to match your actual...