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Cloud & Infrastructure · Analysis
A smaller cloud bill can hide a more expensive service
Cloud unit economics should count useful output and service quality. See how a falling bill can conceal rising cost per successful transaction.
Cloud & Infrastructure · Decision guide
Cloud repatriation: price the operating model you will inherit
A repatriation case needs more than cheaper servers. Compare transition costs, support, spare capacity and service obligations over the same horizon.
Cloud & Infrastructure · Practical guide
A cloud exit plan should prove the service works somewhere else
Test exports, replacement workflows, operating responsibilities and cutover before renewal. Free data transfer does not make a cloud service portable.
Cloud & Infrastructure · Comparison
Kubernetes or managed application services: price the operating work
Compare AKS and Azure Container Apps through workload requirements, retained operating tasks and incident ownership before committing your platform team.
Cloud & Infrastructure · Practical guide
Cloud resilience tests should include the services needed to recover
Test identity, DNS, scaling and recovery access alongside running workloads, using bounded failure scenarios and user-visible acceptance criteria.
Cloud & Infrastructure · Practical guide
Cloud security reviews: follow an NCSC principle into the purchased service
Use the NCSC cloud principles to expose gaps between a provider’s security documentation, the purchased plan and the configuration your team can operate.
Cloud & Infrastructure · Explainer
Cloud sovereignty: separate the location promise from the control you need
For UK cloud buyers, residency, international transfers and operational control need separate evidence. A region selection cannot answer every purchasing question.
Cloud & Infrastructure · Decision guide
Hybrid infrastructure costs: make the service boundaries match
Compare cloud, on-premises and hybrid options using the same workload, support, recovery and time horizon, then test the assumptions that change the result.
Cloud & Infrastructure · Analysis
FinOps for AI: put the whole service behind the cost per outcome
A lower token bill can hide rising retrieval, evaluation and review costs. Build an AI service account around accepted outcomes and clear ownership.
Cloud & Infrastructure · Decision guide
Cloud workload placement: follow the dependency before the discount
An infrastructure director's placement decision depends on where the application talks, how it fails and who can run it. Compute prices come after those tests.
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