1. Informational & Reference Purposes Only
CloudCostDB (cloudcostdb.com) is an independent, free reference tool created to help developers, architects, and FinOps teams navigate cloud infrastructure pricing.
All content, datasets, pricing matrices, specifications, comparison tools, and calculators provided on this site are for general informational and educational purposes only. Nothing on this website constitutes financial, legal, architectural, investment, or professional procurement advice.
2. Pricing Accuracy & Ingestion Latency
CloudCostDB collects and normalizes pricing information published in public cloud provider price lists, bulk pricing index files, and API endpoints (such as the AWS Price List API).
Cloud providers adjust pricing, terms, and availability frequently and without prior notice. While we endeavor to refresh our datasets regularly via automated pipelines:
- Data may be delayed, cached, incomplete, or subject to parsing discrepancies.
- Prices shown reflect standard on-demand public list prices (and select provisioned rates) in US Dollars (USD), unless otherwise noted.
- Calculations and comparisons do not reflect custom customer discounts, Enterprise Discount Programs (EDP), private pricing agreements, regional sales tax, VAT, or incidental charges (such as cross-AZ traffic, minimum billing units, API request charges, or data egress overages) unless explicitly stated.
3. Independent Verification Required
You are solely responsible for independently verifying all hardware specifications, service availability, and pricing directly with the authoritative cloud provider prior to:
- Provisioning or modifying cloud resources or infrastructure.
- Purchasing Reserved Instances, Savings Plans, or multi-year capacity commitments.
- Making architectural, budgetary, or procurement decisions.
Authoritative pricing should always be verified against official cloud provider tools, including the AWS Pricing Calculator, official provider billing consoles, and your organization's specific contractual rate cards.
4. No Warranties (“As-Is”)
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6. Non-Affiliation & Trademark Disclaimers
CloudCostDB is an independent project and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, sponsored by, or certified by Amazon Web Services, Inc., Amazon.com, Inc., Microsoft Corporation, Google LLC, or any other cloud or service provider.
All trademarks, service marks, trade names, product names, model identifiers, and logos cited herein are the property of their respective owners:
- Amazon Web Services, AWS, Amazon EC2, Amazon S3, Amazon RDS, Amazon Aurora, Amazon DynamoDB, Amazon ElastiCache, Amazon EFS, Amazon Bedrock, and related marks are trademarks of Amazon.com, Inc. or its affiliates.
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- Google, Google Cloud, and related marks are trademarks of Google LLC.
- Foundation model and AI provider trademarks (including Anthropic, Claude, Meta, Llama, Mistral AI, Cohere, AI21 Labs, Stability AI, and others) are the property of their respective holders.
References to third-party trademarks and services on this site are solely for factual identification, cataloging, and comparative purposes under nominative fair use principles.
7. Permitted Use & Automated Access
You are welcome to view, bookmark, and reference the pages on this site for personal or internal business evaluation.
If you operate automated bots, crawlers, or scrapers, you must respect our robots.txt directives and implement sensible rate limits so as not to degrade site performance or impose unreasonable load on site infrastructure.
8. Corrections & Feedback
We value accuracy. If you notice a pricing discrepancy, outdated hardware specification, or incorrect mapping, please report it via the project's source repository or issue tracker so the pipeline or catalog can be updated.
9. Modifications
We reserve the right to revise this disclaimer and terms of use at any time. Continued use of CloudCostDB following any modifications indicates your acceptance of the revised terms.