Cloud Networking Basics: VPCs, Subnets and Gateways
Cloud networking is a small number of concepts with different names on every platform. Learn the concepts once.
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Eight Mistakes People Make in Their First Month on Cloud
They are the same eight every time, they are all avoidable, and most of them show up first as a bill nobody expected.
IaaS, PaaS and SaaS: Where the Line Actually Falls
Three acronyms describing how much of the stack someone else operates.
Choosing a Cloud Region
Region choice affects latency, price, legal exposure and which services you can even use.
Reserved Instances, Savings Plans and Committed Use
Commitment discounts are the largest single reduction available on hyperscaler compute.
Security Groups, Firewalls and What Actually Filters Your Traffic
Cloud networks have several filtering layers with confusingly similar names.
Multi-Cloud: When It Makes Sense and When It Is a Tax
Using two providers is sometimes obviously right and often just twice the operational surface for no benefit.
Development, Staging and Production: Keeping Them Honest
A staging environment that differs from production in the wrong ways gives false confidence, which is worse than no…
Private Networking and VPNs for Cloud Infrastructure
The goal is that nothing sensitive has a public address at all. Private networking and a VPN are how you get there.
Why Cloud Bills Surprise People
Cloud pricing is transparent and still routinely surprising. The reason is structural, not deceptive.
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