Worked examples
Five worked examples, read end to end.
Four are real file layouts with made-up numbers and one is a modelled account at the size the tool is for, all run through the same estimator as your own export. Open one in the calculator to change any assumption.
AWS · $3,011/mo
A small AWS account: EC2, RDS, S3 and the usual trimmings
Eleven services on a three-thousand-dollar bill, with reserved instances, a Multi-AZ database and a Marketplace firewall. The kind of account where engineer time decides the answer.
−$22,271 a year on Hetzner, over
Read the exampleGoogle Cloud · $2,406/mo
A Google Cloud project on Compute Engine and Cloud SQL
Core and memory hours pooled per machine family, a regional Cloud SQL instance, Cloud Storage and internet egress, with credits and tax set aside.
−$26,083 a year on Hetzner, over
Read the exampleAzure · $2,142/mo
An Azure subscription with VMs, managed disks and PostgreSQL
VM sizes read straight from the meters, disks from their tier letters, a flexible PostgreSQL server sized as a vCore pool, and a Marketplace line left out.
−$16,947 a year on Hetzner, over
Read the exampleOracle Cloud · $2,582/mo
An Oracle Cloud tenancy on E4 shapes and Autonomous Database
OCPU and memory hours pooled per shape family, an Autonomous Database billed in ECPUs, MySQL HeatWave, block and object storage, and the 10 TB of free egress.
−$13,367 a year on Hetzner, over
Read the exampleAWS · modelled · $24,950/mo
A scale-up on Kubernetes at $25k a month: EKS, Postgres, Kafka, OpenSearch and heavy egress
A modelled account, not a file: the service mix of a Series-A company on EKS with several Postgres instances, Kafka, OpenSearch and tens of terabytes of egress. The size at which the engineer time stops deciding the answer.
$141,771 a year on Hetzner, kept
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