Cutting a Cloud Bill: Where the Money Actually Is
Cost reduction efforts usually start with the wrong line item. Here is the order that finds real money fastest.
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Cloud Compliance Without the Jargon
Shared responsibility, certifications and data residency explained in terms of what you actually have to do.
What “Verified” Means on a Cloud Account
The word gets used loosely. Here is what providers actually verify, why it matters to what you can deploy, and what…
Infrastructure as Code: Why It Is Worth the Setup
Clicking through a console is faster today and slower every day after. Code is slower today and identical every time.
Spot and Preemptible Instances: Cheap Compute With a Catch
Up to ninety per cent off, on the condition that the provider can take the machine back with two minutes of notice.
VM, Container Platform, Serverless or PaaS: Choosing a Deployment Target
Four ways to run the same application, with very different operational and cost profiles.
MFA on Cloud Accounts: Which Method, and Why It Matters
Not all second factors are equal. The difference between SMS and a security key is the difference between slowing an…
Budgets and Alerts: Finding Out Before the Invoice
Cloud billing is retrospective. Without alerts, the first signal of a runaway cost is an invoice for a month you…
Right-Sizing: Finding the Gap Between Provisioned and Used
The most reliable cloud saving is not a discount. It is discovering that half your capacity has never been touched.
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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