Cloud bills usually grow in the places a price sheet does not show: egress, oversized instances and pricing that changes month to month. These articles explain where that hidden “cloud tax” comes from, how to size a VM from real vCPU, RAM and SSD needs, how cost transparency tools work, and what to check in a vendor due diligence review before you sign. MarQi Cloud publishes its own rates as unit prices — USD 2.00 per vCPU, USD 2.00 per GB of RAM and USD 0.13 per GB of block storage per month, with no egress fees — so the examples here can be checked against a real, public price list. Start with How to Properly Size Your VM and Cloud Tax Explained, or compare plans on the pricing page.
