Rethinking Cloud Pricing
Have you ever noticed that cloud pricing is like booking a budget flight—the ticket looks cheap at first, but by the time you’ve paid for luggage, a seat, and breathing room, it’s a first-class bill? Pricing shouldn’t come with hidden fees or surprise add-ons, yet we’ve accepted that as a norm in our cloud bills.
Let’s talk about this—not just the numbers but the philosophy behind all this and how we do things differently at Shuttle. We’re not just simplifying cloud development—we’re making it joyful. That starts with pricing which you can actually understand.
Have you ever tried deciphering a cloud service bill? What exactly are you paying for? Compute? Storage? Egress? “Mystery charges”? And just when you think you’ve cracked the code, surprise! Another line item shows up for a service you didn’t even know existed.
You’re spinning up a project. You pick a cloud provider, and after 40 minutes of decision fatigue, you’ve chosen a virtual server. But what size? What region? Reserved instances? And wait, what’s an Availability Zone? Before you’ve written a single line of code, you’re knee-deep in decision paralysis.
