Region Scorecard
2. Scope and Applicability
What is in scope, out of scope, and the evaluation boundary.
2.1 In Scope
The methodology applies to the following:
- Supported cloud providers. The public commercial regions of Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud.
- Price inputs. The providers' published on-demand prices for services priced on a per-region basis, including compute, storage, database, and the remaining catalogue services that carry a regional price.
- Pricing score. The relative cost percentage and its cost grade, published for every region that prices a sufficient share of the comparison basket.
- Coverage score. The service coverage percentage and its coverage grade, published for every region in scope.
- Evidence indicator. The basket coverage percentage accompanying the pricing score, which a reader needs to judge how much evidence a published cost score rests on.
2.2 Out of Scope
The following are not covered by this methodology:
- Network and data transfer prices. A transfer price attaches to a route between two endpoints and not to a single region, so there is no defensible way to credit it to one region's score. No part of either score accounts for network pricing indirectly.
- Prices that depend on a commitment or on spare capacity, including reservations, savings plans, committed use discounts, and spot or pre-emptible prices.
- Privately negotiated pricing, which Greenpixie does not hold for this purpose.
- Customer usage and spend, which form no part of either score.
- Sovereign and government cloud regions, which receive no pricing score and no coverage score because their catalogues and price structures are not comparable with the public commercial regions they would be scored against. Those regions remain in scope for the environmental scores on the scorecard, produced under the Greenpixie Cloud Emissions Methodology.
2.3 Evaluation Boundary
Every comparison is made within one provider and within one data version. The boundary of the assessment is the provider's published catalogue, and not a customer's bill. The scores describe what a region charges for the things it sells, weighted by nothing other than the composition of the comparison basket described in Section 6.