Moving to the cloud was supposed to make the database bill predictable. For a lot of organisations it did the opposite. The monthly cloud cost crept up, quarter after quarter, and at some point it became a number that makes people wince and nobody can quite explain.
Here is how it happens, and it is nobody’s fault in particular. In the cloud, capacity is a slider. Someone needed more performance for a launch, so they moved it up. The launch ended. The slider stayed. A test database got spun up for a project and never spun down. A tier was chosen generously, just to be safe, and then never revisited because it worked. Every one of those decisions was sensible on the day. Together they are a bill climbing for no reason anyone is tracking.
The cloud charges you for what you provision, not what you use. That is the whole trap. An over-sized database in a data centre is a sunk cost you already paid. An over-sized database in the cloud is a meter running, every hour, forever, until someone turns it down.
Do you know, this month, whether your cloud database spend reflects what you actually need, or what someone set generously eighteen months ago and never went back to? Most organisations cannot say, and when we look, the answer is usually that a meaningful slice of the bill is buying nothing.
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