Cost management
Effective cost management is a key part of managing cloud native apps and infrastructure, and you should always consider the following three things.
- Choosing the right infrastructure
- Rightsizing
- Turning unused infrastructure off
Choosing the right infrastructure
Choosing the right cloud platform is a vital decision. However, even after you’ve chosen your cloud, there are still a lot of decisions that have a high impact on costs and cost management.
For example, most clouds offer the following instance categories – instance is the technical term for a virtual server on a cloud.
- On-demand
- Reserved
- Spot
On-demand instances are the most common and most flexible, however, they’re the most expensive. You can create and delete them “on demand” and they’re yours for as long as you need them.
Reserved instances come at a discounted price in exchange for a long-term commitment. For example, if you commit to a use...
