Estimating cloud infrastructure cost
Estimating cloud infrastructure cost Few weeks ago I was tasked to estimate a cloud architecture with limited requirements. Today we will see the rules which can be followed in order to come up with a price tag. This post is composed by three parts: Defining the requirements Solution needs Price 1. Defining Requirements Before starting any estimation, it is important to get at least one requirement. In this example we will invent a scenario, really close to what I had irl, whereby we would be setting up a Christmas tree website with the following requirements. The trees are put to sale accross the whole year in advance We have about 50k purchases where 80% happens from November to December The most important aspect to remember is that estimates are estimates . It will never be exact, even if it happens to be exact, we probably got lucky. The goal of the estimates are to evaluate the magnitude of the price of an infrastructure whether the infrastructure would cost $100, $...