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How Cloud Contracts Now Charge for DNS to On-Prem Failover Testing
Episode 114 of The Cloud Business Podcast digs into a fresh billing frontier: cloud providers now charging per DNS-to-on-premises failover test. Lucas and Luna break down how AWS, Azure, and GCP have quietly introduced line items for health-check traffic that crosses cloud boundaries, with one enterprise seeing a $47,000 monthly charge from hourly failover drills. The episode explores why this matters for hybrid-cloud architects, how the pricing works (a mix of per-query fees and egress costs), and three concrete strategies to minimize the bill — including consolidating tests, using synthetic…
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