Cloud Infrastructure
Where a workload runs decides what it costs, how fast it responds and how hard it is to leave. Fibi compares IaaS, private cloud, hybrid platforms, bare metal and DRaaS across 50+ providers — including the egress charges and exit terms that rarely appear in the first quote.
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What Is It
The hyperscalers are excellent at some workloads and expensive at others. A steady-state database that runs 24/7 for three years is usually cheaper on dedicated infrastructure than on on-demand instances. A workload with unpredictable spikes is the opposite. A dataset that gets read constantly by systems outside the cloud can cost more in egress fees than in compute. None of that is visible when you compare list prices per vCPU.
The second problem is exit. Storage is cheap to fill and expensive to empty, proprietary managed services are hard to reproduce elsewhere, and a three-year commitment signed for the discount removes the leverage you would need later. The time to negotiate an exit is before you sign, not when the renewal arrives.
Fibi works through the actual workload — utilisation pattern, data gravity, latency and compliance requirements, what talks to what — and sources options across hyperscalers, regional IaaS providers, private cloud operators and bare-metal hosts. You see the real monthly cost including egress and support, plus what it takes to move. We are paid by the provider you choose, so the comparison costs you nothing and we have no reason to steer you toward one platform.
Why It Matters
Compute is the headline; egress, inter-AZ traffic, snapshots, IOPS, support tiers and premium networking are the invoice. We model the full monthly cost against your actual usage pattern rather than a sticker rate.
Steady-state databases, bursty web tiers, GPU jobs and archival storage each have a different economic fit. A hybrid design that puts each workload where it belongs usually beats an all-in-one platform on both cost and performance.
Data egress allowances, migration assistance, notice periods and what happens at renewal — all negotiable before signature and nearly impossible to change afterwards. We put them on the table while you still have leverage.
HIPAA, PCI DSS, SOC 2, FedRAMP and state data-residency rules narrow the provider list fast. We filter for the attestations you actually need and get them evidenced, not just claimed in a sales deck.
DRaaS with a stated RPO and RTO, and a test schedule written into the contract. A recovery plan nobody has exercised is a document, not a capability.
Private circuits into AWS, Azure, Google Cloud and Oracle avoid the public internet and often pay for themselves in reduced egress. Because Fibi also sources the network, the cloud and the circuit get designed together.
The Fibi Advantage
Who Needs This
A lease is expiring or the hardware refresh has arrived. Some workloads belong in public cloud, some in colocation, some on managed private cloud — deciding which is which before the move is what keeps the budget intact.
Spend rising while headcount and traffic stay flat usually means idle capacity, over-provisioned instances, forgotten snapshots or egress nobody attributed. Worth measuring before committing to another reserved term.
Auditors, insurers and enterprise customers increasingly ask for a tested recovery capability with documented objectives — not a backup job and good intentions.
Healthcare, financial services and public sector work where the platform must carry specific attestations and data has to stay inside defined boundaries.
Databases, rendering, analytics and AI training that run continuously. Bare metal or dedicated private cloud is frequently far cheaper than on-demand instances at this profile.
The three months before a renewal are the only time real leverage exists. A credible alternative on the table changes the conversation more than a request for a discount does.
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Cloud providers we compare
Public cloud, private cloud, bare metal, DRaaS and managed platforms. Every one is available through Fibi at the same rate as going direct.
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