How Cloud Bills Now Charge for DNS Query Volumes

The Cloud Business Podcast with Fexingo: AWS, Azure, GCP, and Enterprise Infrastructure · Aug 7, 2026 · 5m · transcript

Episode 149 of The Cloud Business Podcast digs into a quietly expanding line item on cloud invoices: DNS query charges. Lucas and Luna explore how major providers have shifted from bundling DNS into the base service to metering every lookup, and what that means for enterprises running high-traffic architectures. They walk through a concrete example of a large e-commerce platform whose DNS costs jumped after a pricing update, and discuss strategies like using cheaper resolver tiers, caching more aggressively, and negotiating volume discounts. They also touch on the broader trend of cloud…