How it works
Why does it behave this way?
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Pricing primitives
What is actually metered in a price, and why does cost have no failure detector?
11 pages - 2
Design consequences
Which designs would not exist under a different price list, and how do you test that claim?
9 pages - 3
Elasticity
Why is the spread between on-demand, committed and spot prices the price of your uncertainty?
8 pages - 4
Control and attribution
Why can a monthly bill not control spending, and why does control need two loops?
7 pages - 5
Anti-patterns
Why is anti-pattern the wrong word for a design that leaks a price through its abstraction?
4 pages - 6
What lasts
Which four things do pricing mechanisms forbid, and which escape is cheapest?
2 pages