Sources & methodology

Where the numbers come from

Cloud infrastructure pricing is pulled directly from each provider's official pricing API — Azure's Retail Prices API, AWS's Price List API, and Google Cloud's Billing Catalog API — not scraped or estimated. Every price shown carries the date it was fetched.

What this tool doesn't model yet, on purpose

• On-demand pricing only. Reserved Instance, Reserved VM Instance, and Committed-Use Discount rates aren't collected yet — on-demand is always the worst-case price, real savings from committing to a term aren't reflected here.
• No LLM API pricing yet. The combined cloud + AI view is coming, but isn't backed by real data yet.
• Egress and data-transfer costs aren't broken out as a separate line item yet.

We'd rather show a visible gap than a number that looks precise but isn't. If your real workload needs to account for any of the above — which most production workloads do — that's exactly the kind of analysis Blue Connector's ICT cost review does.

Regions

Singapore and Australia (Sydney) are the two regions currently tracked, reflecting Blue Connector's Asia-Pacific client base.