AWS Cost Explorer: Finding Waste and Right-Sizing EC2 Instances
When one of our managed services clients forwarded their AWS invoice last quarter with the subject line “is this normal?”, I already had a guess at the answer before o…
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Azure CDN in 2026: Still Worth It, But Pick Your Tier
A retail client called us last spring after their Black Friday rehearsal ended with origin servers melting at 40% of projected traffic. They had a CDN switched on — Az…
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Azure Scalability vs Elasticity: What Actually Matters for Planning
After a client asked me to sanity-check their Azure capacity plan ahead of a product launch, I remembered that I had written a half-page note on Azure scalability vs e…
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Azure SQL Database: Managed Relational Database Service Overview
A financial services client came to us running SQL Server 2016 on three dedicated virtual machines — patching schedules managed manually, backups verified by a script…
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Azure Cloud Infrastructure: Hard Lessons from a Real Outage
Six hours of downtime. One Azure region. Zero redundancy. I got the call at 11 PM on a Tuesday and spent the rest of the night explaining to a very unhappy client why…
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