GPU Instances: What You Are Renting and What It Costs
GPU instances are the most expensive thing on most cloud price lists, and the easiest to leave running by accident.
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Moving Off a Cloud Provider Without Drama
Leaving is harder than arriving, mostly because of things that accumulated quietly: managed services, egress and…
Securing a Cloud Account You Did Not Open Yourself
Changing the password is the easy part and the least important.
Egress Costs: The Line Item Nobody Provisioned
You choose an instance size. You do not choose an egress bill — it arrives as a consequence of decisions made…
Infrastructure Checklist for an AI Workload
Machine learning projects fail on infrastructure more often than on modelling. Most of it is foreseeable.
Scaling Up vs Scaling Out: Which One First
Horizontal scaling is the sophisticated answer and usually the wrong first move.
Working With Cloud CLIs and APIs
The console is for exploring. The CLI is for doing the same thing twice, and the API is for doing it ten thousand…
Least Privilege Without Breaking Everything
Everyone agrees with least privilege and almost nobody implements it, because the obvious approach breaks production.
Reading a Cloud SLA Properly
An SLA is a billing commitment with conditions attached. Reading the conditions is where the useful information is.
Hyperscaler or VPS Provider? A Framework
The choice is not really AWS against Hetzner. It is how much of your infrastructure you want to operate yourself, and…
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