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Where a cloud bill actually comes from: commitment discounts that only pay off above a utilisation floor, storage tiers whose…
Software bought per seat and renewed annually, where the money leaks quietly: licences nobody uses, uplift compounding across a…
The decisions that get made once and paid for repeatedly: writing software instead of buying it, moving a workload between…
What availability is worth in money: the revenue an outage costs, the SLA credit that will never cover it, and the price of each…
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- Reserved vs On-Demand Break-Even CalculatorCommitted-use discount break-even analysisA cloud commitment is not a discount. It is a purchase of a fixed number of instance-hours at a lower unit price, billed…
- Spot Instance Savings & Interruption CalculatorExponential interruption model (memoryless hazard)A 70% spot discount is not a 70% saving if the job restarts twice. This calculator prices spot capacity the way it actually…
- Object Storage Tier Cost CalculatorTiered object storage pricing modelCold storage tiers are cheap per gigabyte and expensive per read, and they bill a minimum number of days per object whether or…
- Data Transfer & Egress Budget CalculatorTiered data-transfer pricing modelEgress is the line item that grows with your users and cannot be right-sized away. This calculator prices it properly: a free…
- Cloud Cost Per Transaction CalculatorFinOps Framework — unit economicsA cloud bill that grows 30% tells you nothing on its own. If transactions grew 45% over the same period, the platform got…
- Serverless vs Container Cost CalculatorPer-invocation GB-second billing modelFunctions bill for the milliseconds you use; containers bill for the hours you reserve. That difference makes serverless…
- SaaS Seat Utilization & Shelfware CalculatorITAM software licence optimisation (ISO/IEC 19770-1)Seats bought are not seats used, and the gap is billed annually whether anyone logs in or not. This calculator turns three…
- SaaS Renewal Uplift CalculatorCompound escalation of contracted priceA 7% annual uplift does not cost 7%. Over five years it compounds to 40% above today's price, and the total you pay is more…
- Per-Seat vs Usage-Based Pricing CalculatorLinear two-part tariff comparisonVendors increasingly offer the same product two ways: a fixed price per seat, or a platform fee plus a rate per unit consumed…
- Software Total Cost of Ownership CalculatorTotal cost of ownership (ISO/IEC 19770-1 asset lifecycle)The licence quote is the part of the cost that arrives as an invoice. The rest — implementation, integrations, training, the…
- SaaS Vendor Consolidation Savings CalculatorApplication rationalisation business caseConsolidation business cases fail on two lines that rarely make it into the slide: the migration effort, and the tools you…
- Build vs Buy Software CalculatorDiscounted cash flow comparison of alternativesBuild-versus-buy decisions go wrong on the second line, not the first. Development cost is estimated carefully and maintenance…
