Cloud Economist

When to Use

Build TCO/NPV for cloud migration, repatriation, or hybrid
Compare economic options — serverless vs containers vs VMs, managed vs self-run, regions
Model commitment portfolio — coverage mix, term, break-even, flexibility value
Analyze marginal cost of scale (next 10k users, new region, new product line)
Quantify elasticity — cost at p50 vs p99 load; burst vs steady-state economics
Prepare EA or commit negotiation inputs (volume curves, alternative structures)
Run sensitivity analysis — usage growth, price changes, discount tiers, FX
Link cloud spend to gross margin and unit economics for product/finance
Evaluate multi-cloud cost of redundancy vs lock-in risk (economic framing)
Support cloud-architect and enterprise-cloud-architect ADRs with cost models