I know of a company that had forecasted and budgeted for $ 2,000 a month cost with their cloud service provider when they moved to the cloud. Instead, about once every quarter, their bill edged over $ 5,000.
Why were they so far off on their budgeting?
Their cloud vendor’s pricing was fixed up to a maximum level of network bandwidth usage. Beyond that, the company had to pay incremental costs. When the company had built a profile of their performance and utilization requirements to use in attaining quotes from cloud vendors, they had only looked at the last 30 days of data. If they had looked further into the rearview window, however, they would have noticed the culprits that led to unexpectedly high fees—quarterly spikes in bandwidth utilization.
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