How to you start using cloud in a non-tech savvy company?

Question

How could a company's first technical employee (or a consultant) integrate cloud service costs into the company budget? My thinking is that when you build "serverless" or "autoscaling" services the company may ask

How much will this cost? $10/month? $1,000/month?

and it seems unclear how to manage those costs.

If we just do an example. Let's say I build a Heroku or Cloud Run (GCP) hosted dashboard, or a simple web app using Firebase. Who pays for it? I don't want company tools to run out of my credit card for obvious reasons.

Answer 1

Make sure you have technical solution of your problem.

Then, find out the size of your data in each request. How much bandwidth you will use? Where you will store the data? How much CPU you will use? etc. Based on this extrapolate your cost for whole month.

Based on that you can use GCP calculator https://cloud.google.com/products/calculator

Answer 2

I would recommend to start with one of the major cloud providers free plans, for example in AWS you can open free account for 12 month and you can start building your serverless code, create api, store data and much more. after getting confidence with your solution you can present it to your company and decide later if they want to continue with payable usage or not.