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Pay-as-you-go

Meaning in software engineering, with examples

adjectiveCore term

In software engineering, pay-as-you-go means: Describes a pricing model in which you pay only for the resources you actually use, for example by the second, hour or gigabyte, with no long-term contract.

In Turkish: kullandıkça öde, kullandığın kadar öde

How it is used

The default pricing in the cloud, also called on-demand pricing. Used before nouns ('pay-as-you-go pricing', 'a pay-as-you-go plan'). It is flexible but more expensive per hour than reserved capacity.

Example sentences

  1. Pay-as-you-go pricing is perfect for our test environments, which only run during office hours.

  2. We started on a pay-as-you-go plan and moved to reserved instances once usage was stable.

Common collocations

  • pay-as-you-go pricing
  • pay-as-you-go model
  • on-demand pricing
  • pay-as-you-go plan
  • reserved instanceCloud capacity you commit to use for one or three years in exchange for a large discount compared with normal on-demand prices.
  • spot instanceSpare cloud capacity sold at a much lower price, which the provider can take back at short notice when it needs the capacity again.
  • cost optimizationReducing cloud spending without hurting performance or reliability, for example by removing unused resources, choosing the right sizes and using discounts.
  • serverlessDescribes a way of running code in which the provider starts and scales servers automatically for each request, and you pay only for the time your code actually runs.

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