Effective discount
The discount an organisation actually achieves, as opposed to the headline rate. It depends on how much usage the commitments cover and how fully they are used, and is often well below the advertised percentage. Why it matters: Planning on headline discounts leads to overpromised savings.
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T0 / M0.1 / L3 Granularity vs. timeliness: the trade-off you didn't choose T0 / M0.1 / L1 What's actually in a cloud bill T0 / M0.3 / L2 Commitments: what RIs, SPs, CUDs really save T0 / M0.4 / L2 Billing cost: and why it's lower than rack rate T0 / M0.4 / L1 What "rack rate" actually means T5 / M5.7 / L2 Effective discount math