- CapEx
- Upfront cost
- Money spent on physical infrastructure up front.
- Deduct this expense from your tax bill same year.
- Server costs
- Storage costs
- Network costs
- Backup and archive costs
- Business continuity and disaster recovery
- Datacentre infra costs
- Costs on tech personnel
- OpEx
- Spending money on services or produts now and being billed for them now.
- Leasing s/w and customized features
- Scaling charges based on usage / demand instead of fixed h/w or capacity
- Billing at the user or organization level
