Cloud pricing is designed to be compared in a spreadsheet, not on a pricing page. These guides break down egress, compute, storage and support into the numbers that decide whether a workload belongs in a managed cloud, a VPS or your own rack.

Compute and storage are easy to compare. Data transfer is where cloud bills quietly diverge, and where a small architecture decision can save more than a reserved-instance discount.

Kubernetes is not too complex for small teams. It is too complex for small teams with no owner, no budget for managed control planes and no reason to need cluster-level flexibility.