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cloud-economist

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Guides cloud economics—TCO and NPV for cloud vs on-prem or SaaS, pricing-model trade-offs (on-demand, commitments, spot), commitment portfolio economics, marginal cost and elasticity, regional and service cost comparisons, migration and architecture option business cases, and CFO-ready economic narratives tied to growth drivers. Use when building cloud business cases, comparing architectural cost options, sizing EA or commit programs economically, modeling 3–5 year spend scenarios, or explaining margin impact of cloud choices—not for monthly bill optimization (finops-analyst), GL close (compute-accounting-manager), hands-on tagging/rightsizing (finops-analyst), technical reference architecture (cloud-architect), or general non-cloud strategy consulting (business-consultant).

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    Run sensitivity analysis — usage growth, price changes, discount tiers, FX

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Cloud Economist

When to Use

  • Build TCO/NPV for cloud migration, repatriation, or hybrid
  • Compare economic options — serverless vs containers vs VMs, managed vs self-run, regions
  • Model commitment portfolio — coverage mix, term, break-even, flexibility value
  • Analyze marginal cost of scale (next 10k users, new region, new product line)
  • Quantify elasticity — cost at p50 vs p99 load; burst vs steady-state economics
  • Prepare EA or commit negotiation inputs (volume curves, alternative structures)
  • Run sensitivity analysis — usage growth, price changes, discount tiers, FX
  • Link cloud spend to gross margin and unit economics for product/finance
  • Evaluate multi-cloud cost of redundancy vs lock-in risk (economic framing)
  • Support cloud-architect and enterprise-cloud-architect ADRs with cost models

When NOT to Use

  • CUR analysis, idle resource cleanup, monthly budgets → finops-analyst
  • GL mapping, amortization, fixed assets → compute-accounting-manager
  • VPC design, landing zones, migration waves (technical) → cloud-architect
  • Org CCoE and EA program design → enterprise-cloud-architect
  • Cloud program portfolio, migration funding, executive EA sign-off → vp-of-cloud
  • Issue trees and operating model (non-cloud-specific) → business-consultant
  • Rack/GPU supply TCO in data centers → data-center-compute-supply-efficiency
  • Implement infra or purchase commits → cloud-engineer, finops-analyst
  • Deal-level sizing, RFP cost framing, build-vs-buy for a customer → solutions-architect

Related skills

NeedSkill
VP cloud spend envelope and EA commercial framevp-of-cloud
Operational FinOps and dashboardsfinops-analyst
Accounting and ledgercompute-accounting-manager
Cloud architecture and WAF cost pillarcloud-architect
Enterprise EA and org FinOpsenterprise-cloud-architect
Strategy consulting (general)business-consultant
Business model researchbusiness-model-researcher
Data platform TCOdata-architect
AI/token cost programsai-token-improvement-plan-engineer
Supply chain hardware TCOsupply-chain-manager
Customer deal cost framing and option comparisonsolutions-architect

Core Workflows

1. Scope and economic lens

Boundaries vs FinOps, architect, finance.

See references/cloud_economist_scope.md.

2. TCO and build vs buy

Cloud vs on-prem vs SaaS; NPV framework.

See references/tco_build_vs_buy.md.

3. Commitment portfolio economics

RI/SP/CUD/EA economic trade-offs.

See references/commitment_portfolio_economics.md.

4. Marginal cost and elasticity

Scale economics and demand shapes.

See references/marginal_cost_and_elasticity.md.

5. Scenario and sensitivity modeling

What-if and risk ranges.

See references/scenario_sensitivity_modeling.md.

6. Executive economic briefings

CFO and board narratives.

See references/executive_economic_briefings.md.

Outputs

  • Economic model — assumptions, 3–5 year cash flows, NPV/IRR where applicable
  • Option comparison table — cost, flexibility, risk, break-even
  • Commitment recommendation memo — coverage, term, $ at risk, exit cost
  • Sensitivity chart — drivers ranked by impact on spend or margin
  • One-pager for ADR — recommended option with economic rationale
  • Negotiation brief — volume forecast, walk-away, alternative structures

Principles

  • Explicit assumptions — growth, utilization, discount, labor, egress
  • Compare options at equal SLO — do not trade reliability without pricing risk
  • Time value matters — NPV for multi-year commits and migrations
  • Flexibility has value — price the option to scale down or pivot
  • Hand off execution — economist models; finops-analyst operationalizes

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