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A Developer’s Guide to Understanding Cloud Bills (AWS, GCP, Azure)
Translate cloud invoices into the Kubernetes resources you ship—nodes, storage, load balancers, and egress.
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Jesus Paz • 1 min read
Cloud bills are written for accountants, not developers. Here’s how to map line items to the Kubernetes resources you deploy.
- Compute: instance hours = your nodes; mix of on-demand/spot/preemptible/RI/Savings Plans.
- Storage: EBS/PD/Disk for PVs; snapshots; object storage for backups and logs.
- Network: egress out of region/AZ/cloud; load balancer LCUs; NAT/IGW charges.
- Managed services: control planes, databases, queues—allocate shared services by traffic or seats.
- Taxes/Support: add 3–10% overhead depending on plan and region.
- Fixed infra: control plane ($0.10/hr on EKS), idle LBs, and NAT gateways—easy to forget, easy to prune.
If you can point to the deployment that created a line item, you can control it. Tie bills to manifests, not just spreadsheets.***
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Jesus Paz
Founder & CEO
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