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by michaelmior 685 days ago
This looks cool, but I'm a little confused about the pricing model. It sounds like I'm paying you for every hour my jobs are running on my own infrastructure if I'm reading it right. That seems like a really odd way to price things if true.
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richardw 684 days ago
It's not a unique model - that's what e.g. Databricks does too. You pay for the resources, which means you can deploy them with whatever security model you require (good for enterprise, with all the firewalls and secrets and security reviews your heart desires), but you also pay for the management layer that Databricks offers. In Databricks' case you're basically doubling the infrastructure cost per hour.

Data and compute stay in your own tenant.

Edit: confirmed - look at that enterprise tier. If you want SSO & RBAC you click that button and pay $5k/month minimum. Definitely an enterprise play and the pricing model and approach to security will make sense to those customers.

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michaelmior 684 days ago
Fair enough. I'm just not familiar with that pricing model, but that somewhat makes sense.
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tommy_mcclung 685 days ago
Yeah, I hear you and the confusion. We decided on this as a management fee that only gets charged when you’re using the environment. It was the best tradeoff we could come up with but it definitely isn’t perfect. Any ideas on how we can make this clearer or better?
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