[phamilton]

A common scenario I see is "host based pricing". We went from 100+ 2xlarge instances to 10 24xlarge instances for our ECS cluster. This was pretty transparent to our application and team, but it meant that anything with host based pricing was much much much cheaper.

We produced the same data, we got the same value, we probably cost our providers the same, but we saved a ton of money.

[spockz]

This is where I’m really annoyed by vendors pricing models. An example would be cpu/core based licensing meaning that you need to lump systems on the same vm, even if architecturally it would make more sense to split them.

Then we have something like Kafka per topic pricing as a proxy for per use pricing which is even more annoying because now we get all kinds of shenanigans to reuse topics to avoid paying for having thousands of them and generated on the fly.

[ezekg]

I'm curious -- what kinds of businesses do cpu/core based licensing, in your experience?

[darrylb42]

Oracle DB and SQL Server are both licensed per cpu core. At least last time I priced them out.

[vanattab]

Also flight simulation image generation software ID often licensed per #cpu

[jonfw]

Openshift is one