3- and 5-year total cost of ownership models across providers — including compute, storage, egress, support, and hidden costs sales reps leave out.
Talk to a FinOps analystCloud pricing pages lie. The listed price for an EC2 instance or a VM is maybe 60% of what you'll actually pay. The other 40% is egress, snapshots, NAT gateways, load balancers, support tier upgrades, reserved capacity you forgot to renew, and the 'small' database that grew 10x. Most teams are shocked when they see their real cloud bill — and shocked again when they try to model it themselves.
CB4UHost builds TCO models that capture the real costs. We model compute, storage, network, egress, support, migration, and exit costs over 1, 3, and 5 years — across 2-5 providers so you can compare apples-to-apples. We include the costs sales reps leave out: snapshot storage, cross-AZ traffic, NAT gateway hours, data transfer out, and the support tier you'll actually need.
We also model the 'exit cost' — what it would cost to leave a provider if they raise prices or you're unhappy. Lock-in has a real dollar value, and we put it in the model.
Every TCO engagement ends with a spreadsheet you can audit, a written recommendation, and a 60-minute walkthrough. No black boxes — you see every assumption and can adjust them.
Detailed cost model for your workload(s) across 2-5 providers, with every line item broken out.
Cost projections over 1, 3, and 5 years including expected price changes and growth assumptions.
Egress, snapshots, NAT, load balancers, support tier upgrades, reserved capacity — all the costs reps leave out.
What it would cost to leave each provider — data transfer, re-architecture, re-training.
How the comparison changes if traffic grows 2x, if egress prices drop, if you commit to 3-year RIs.
Written recommendation plus the full spreadsheet so you can audit every assumption.
We document your compute, storage, network, and support requirements in detail.
We pull current pricing from 2-5 providers, including reserved capacity and committed-use discounts.
We build a detailed spreadsheet with every line item — including the hidden costs.
We run sensitivity scenarios and model exit costs for each provider.
We deliver the spreadsheet, a written recommendation, and a 60-minute walkthrough.
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Cloud provider calculators are marketing tools — they undercount egress, ignore support tier upgrades, and don't model snapshot growth. We include the real costs. Our numbers are typically 30-50% higher than the provider's calculator — and much closer to what you'll actually pay.
Yes. We model on-demand, 1-year RI, 3-year RI, convertible RI, and Savings Plan scenarios. We also model the commitment risk — what happens if your workload changes and you're stuck with unused reservations.
Yes. Many of our TCO models compare single-cloud vs. multi-cloud vs. hybrid (dedicated + cloud) scenarios. Multi-cloud has operational overhead but reduces lock-in; we quantify both.
Typically within 10-15% of actual costs at 12 months. Accuracy decreases over 3-5 years due to price changes and workload growth. We include sensitivity analysis so you can see the range.
Side-by-side comparison of shared, VPS, cloud, dedicated, GPU, and colocation across major providers — with specs, pricing, and trade-offs.
We evaluate your workloads, data, security posture, and team readiness to determine which apps should move to cloud — and which should stay.
Reduce your cloud bill by 20-40% with right-sizing, reserved capacity, spot instances, and architecture changes — we share the savings.
Tell us about your project. We'll come back with a scoped proposal and a fixed-fee quote.
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