Being a complete cynical bastard here but I sometimes feel like these calculators are actually meant to obfuscate and confuse and the result is that a startup worried about scale is going to pay over the odds and then deal with ‘rightsizing’ after the costs get out of control.
I felt like that with elastic serverless’ pricing calculator which on the surface looks perhaps cheaper or more efficient than a normal managed cluster, because you think it would be like lambda. Except there are so many caveats and unintuitive hidden costs and you’ll likely pay more than you think.
Can't speak for everywhere of course, but the places I have worked nobody likes spikes or over commitments. The customer is shouting at your people, salespeople and support spend time and get stressed dealing with them, leadership gets bogged down approving bill reductions. Even if granted, customers remember the bad experience and are probably more likely to churn
My cynical take: I make things that look hard to make to impress you but if you make them for me I feel my money is going into the calculator rather than the product.
I felt like that with elastic serverless’ pricing calculator which on the surface looks perhaps cheaper or more efficient than a normal managed cluster, because you think it would be like lambda. Except there are so many caveats and unintuitive hidden costs and you’ll likely pay more than you think.