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Chapter 4. IT Services > Four Cornerstones of Cloud Economics

Four Cornerstones of Cloud Economics

When making a workload placement decision, we also need to look at the costs as well as the risks, as we have just been discussing. The fundamentals of cloud economics can be summarized to four different areas:

  • Cost per unit of IT service

  • Financing of workload variability

  • Time value of money

  • Innovation


  

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