And if considering elastic capacity, do you include the cost of the engineering effort required to take advantage of it?
A similar question applies to any other dynamic cost-reduction measure, such as spot instances.
I recall reading an announcement that GCP was starting only charging for actually-used vCPUs, rather than all that were provisioned, a form of automatic elastic cost-savings, although it was still more expensive than a DIY method. AFAIK, AWS doesn't do anything like that.
A similar question applies to any other dynamic cost-reduction measure, such as spot instances.
I recall reading an announcement that GCP was starting only charging for actually-used vCPUs, rather than all that were provisioned, a form of automatic elastic cost-savings, although it was still more expensive than a DIY method. AFAIK, AWS doesn't do anything like that.