Platform & DevOps·What the platform costs
you pay the full hourly rate for capacity you can give back at any second, which is the most expensive way to run anything steady.
On-demand pricing
Also calledon demand, pay as you go, list price
Paying the published rate per unit of time with no commitment and no interruption risk. It is the right price for genuinely unpredictable or short-lived workloads and the wrong one for a baseline that has run continuously for two years. Most cloud overspend is simply a steady-state fleet still being billed this way because nobody did the commitment exercise.