Your Cloud Economics Pulse For November 2025

Welcome to your monthly cloud economics pulse check, in which we analyze cloud and AI spend across different dimensions including provider, service, and other categories.

SaaS Gross Margin Benchmarks: What To Track In 2025

SaaS gross margin benchmarks are a good starting point. In this guide, we’ll share how to outpace them with smarter strategies, real-time data, and zero guesswork.

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AWS alternatives and competitors in 2026: Azure, Google Cloud, and 8 more compared

Compare 10 AWS alternatives including Azure, Google Cloud, Oracle, and DigitalOcean. See market share, pricing, AI capabilities, and when each provider makes more sense.

Amazon S3 pricing: the complete 2026 guide

Learn how Amazon S3 pricing works in 2026: all 8 storage classes, data transfer fees, request costs, S3 Vectors for AI workloads, and 13 practical ways to reduce your bill.

Customer lifetime value (CLV): formula, calculation, and how to improve it

Learn what customer lifetime value is, how to calculate it, and 8 strategies to increase CLV. Includes the AI COGS insight most SaaS companies miss.

The Telemetry Trap — and How to Avoid It

Brian Mullins, Head of Engineering at Diaceutics, has a simple philosophy: cost data should live where engineering decisions get made. In this episode, he walks through how his team used granular telemetry and unit cost testing to double platform usage while holding costs flat — and how that same discipline now governs every AI workload they run. From a $6K/month redundant job to catching a misfired warehouse tier, the examples are specific and the playbook is replicable.

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