Cloud Cost API

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    E("📏 Apply OTEL data to metarex model")
    F("🗜️ normalize AWS pricing ⇒ mrx-COST")
    G("💰 Get real-time costs")

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We’re proposing a simple paradigm

• A minimal, cloud-independent model of the major cloud cost points
  • e.g. EC2 type
  • NAT Gateway boundaries for traffic
  • storage types
  • dB
• A normalization tool to import real-time pricing data to the model
• A normalization tool to import real-time energy mix data to the model
• A middleware approach to integrate opentelemetry.io
• A grafana-friendly output format

We are looking for supporters to turn this into a real Proof Of Concept in two phases:

1. Q3/Q4 2025 - optimise the MetaRex worker and build a normalizer for AWS to be demonstrated at IBC 2025.
2. Q1/Q2 Deploying the test system in a real environment and improve the model.

We estimate about 10 weeks of engineering for each phase and are looking for collaborators who might find 1 or more weeks of engineering @ £1000/wk.