AWS vs Azure: choosing between the two largest clouds
Both platforms can run almost any workload. The decision is rarely about capability and almost always about your existing identity estate, your team’s experience and how you want to buy.
The first hour with a new cloud account
A newly delivered cloud account is at its most exposed in the hour before anyone configures it. Here is the order to do things in, and why that order matters.
Hetzner vs OVHcloud: two routes to European infrastructure
Both offer European datacentres at prices well below the hyperscalers. They differ in breadth, in footprint and in how much of the operational burden they leave with you.
Billing alerts and budgets, before you deploy anything
Cloud billing is consumption-based and continuous, which means the feedback arrives after the money is spent. Alerts are the only mechanism that closes that gap.
Linode vs DigitalOcean: two developer clouds compared
The two most similar platforms in the catalogue. The differences that matter are ownership, documentation culture and which managed services you intend to lean on.
What free tiers and trial credits actually cover
Free tiers, trial credits and always-free allowances are three different things with three different failure modes. Knowing which you have changes how you should build.