Billing models for outsourced public cloud management
In this article, we review the most common public cloud management billing models we see in the market.
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When purchasing public cloud IaaS services, customers can choose to let a third-party provider handle cloud management.
Payment models for cloud management services often differ from vendor to vendor and customer to customer, and not all payment models are equally beneficial in all respects. In this article, we review the most common billing models we see in the market and discuss the pros and cons associated with each.
Some payment models are more or less suitable depending on which disciplines the cloud management tasks fall within.
The article is relevant for all companies considering migrating parts of traditional IT operations to public cloud IaaS, or for companies already in the cloud that are considering outsourcing their cloud management to a third party.