More than a third of firms hit by unexpected cloud costs

A survey of 1,000 developers at businesses of all sizes finds that 37 percent have been stung by unexpected cloud costs in the last 12 months. The study by cloud-native service provider Civo finds that half of those affected say it was a mistake or configuration change that led to the unexpected cost as opaque and complicated cloud billing hinders proper cost planning. Lack of transparency among providers is consistently cited as a problem. 34 percent claim to find it difficult to calculate how much their cloud provider is going to charge them each month. Only 17 percent say that… [Continue Reading]