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Iris Donnelly
Cloud economics and inference infrastructure
Covers what running things actually costs: commitments, capacity, egress, and the price of changing your mind later.
What this desk covers
- Cloud pricing and commitments
- GPU and inference capacity
- Egress and lock-in
- Reliability and regions
What this desk reads
- Published price lists and commitment terms
- Capacity and region announcements
- Status-page history
- Provider earnings commentary on capacity
How this desk decides
Models the three-year bill, including the commitment that looked like a discount and the egress that was never in the model.
What this byline is
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