Multi-cloud taxonomy
Recognize the top cost-printing services on AWS, GCP, and Azure.
4 lessons.
Read in order, or jump to what you need.
AWS cost surface: services that print money
By the end of this lesson, you will be able to rank the top 10 AWS services by typical spend share and identify the three services that quietly print money in the long tail.
GCP cost surface: quirks and gotchas
By the end of this lesson, you will be able to distinguish GCP's three pricing levers and identify the cross-zone traffic charge that surprises teams on both AWS and GCP.
Azure cost surface: reservations, hybrid benefit, deallocate-vs-stop
By the end of this lesson, you will be able to distinguish Azure's three primary cost levers and recognize the deallocate-vs-stop trap.
Multi-cloud governance: the bare-minimum architecture
By the end of this lesson, you will be able to draft the minimum-viable multi-cloud governance architecture and explain why provider-weighting matters for cost reporting.