the.com/infrastructure costs
the invisible tax you pay so your app can pretend the internet is solid ground.
means the recurring money spent on servers, networks, storage, and tooling that keep a product running before a single feature ships.
from from roman aqueducts and railroads, where infra meant the below, the unseen structure holding up everything visible; software just moved the plumbing into the cloud and kept the invoices.
cloud wastecompanies overspend roughly 30 percent on unused cloud capacity
scaling trapcosts often grow faster than actual user demand
hidden layermost bills hide in data transfer and idle storage