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How Cloud Contracts Now Charge for Instance Metadata API Calls
Episode 127 dives into a rapidly growing line item in enterprise cloud bills: charges for every call to the instance metadata service. Lucas and Luna break down how AWS, Azure, and GCP are now metering metadata API requests that were once free, using real numbers from a finops team at a mid-size e-commerce company. They explore why cloud providers are doing this, how it impacts infrastructure-as-code workflows, and what operators can do to audit and reduce metadata call volumes. The conversation includes a concrete case where a single misconfigured Kubernetes DaemonSet drove $4,200 in…
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