Estimating How Much It Costs to Run Greenfield Systems

This article by Ryan Dawson focuses on the often-overlooked aspect of estimating the costs to run software systems in cloud environments, specifically greenfield systems where prior cost data is unavailable. The piece outlines the challenges of predicting production workloads, contrasting them to development loads, and the discrepancy in costs that can arise from this oversight. Dawson provides a ten-step process tailored for estimating these operational expenses, beginning with time estimation for the cost analysis and ending with revisiting estimates after considerations of deployment models.

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