Cost Analyst Perspective

Evaluate design proposals from a financial and resource efficiency standpoint.

Analysis Checklist

Infrastructure Costs

• Estimate compute, storage, and network costs for the proposed design
• Compare resource requirements against current baseline spending
• Check for cost spikes under peak load or seasonal traffic patterns
• Verify that auto-scaling policies prevent unnecessary overprovisioning
• Assess whether reserved capacity or spot instances reduce costs

Operational Overhead

• Evaluate the staffing required to operate and maintain the design
• Check that incident response procedures are proportionate to complexity
• Verify that deployment and rollback processes minimize downtime costs
• Assess the monitoring and observability investment needed