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Oct 20244 min

The Cost Myth: Multi-Cloud Labs Without Scary Bills

One of the biggest barriers to cloud education is cost. Faculty worry about runaway bills, students run out of trial credits, and institutions hesitate to commit to a single vendor contract. The result? Multi-cloud learning gets reduced to theory, with real practice cut short.

Meghkosh breaks this myth. As an orchestration layer, it provisions dedicated, guardrail-bound accounts across AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, Oracle, or Utho — each scoped to the lab, each automatically cleaned up after use. Students get the full cloud experience, but without risk.

Here's how it works in practice:

  • CloudX Canvas lets instructors define exactly which services are needed for a lab.
  • CloudX Lab provisions accounts with strict quotas and policies, so only those services can be used.
  • CloudX Observe tracks real-time consumption across batches, giving institutions visibility and control.
  • At the end, resources are torn down automatically — no forgotten VMs, no lingering costs.

For students, this means learning without fear of overspending. For institutions, it means predictable pricing: approximately $6 per student per lab, inclusive of licensing and cloud usage.

The myth is that multi-cloud education is expensive. The truth is that, with orchestration, it's not about spending more — it's about spending smart. Meghkosh ensures students build real deployments on any cloud, while institutions stay in full control of budgets and outcomes.