A busy week across the major providers, with AWS delivering a cluster of meaningful updates and Google quietly improving one of its most important HA features. The thread running through much of it: cloud platforms are being reshaped around AI…
Every cloud engineer breaks something in production. If you haven’t yet, you will. The engineers who reach senior roles earning £90,000-£130,000 are not the ones who avoided incidents throughout their early career, they’re the ones who handled the 48 hours…
Most Cloud Run deployments are running with their default concurrency setting of 80, their billing mode unchanged from the install default, and their VPC connectivity wired through a Serverless VPC Access connector that was provisioned two years ago. Each of…
Cloud-mature organisations learn this slowly. The IaC pipeline runs cleanly, the resource exists, the deployment succeeds, and everyone moves on to the next sprint. What does not move with them is the operational context: who knows how this service behaves…
It has been a week where Microsoft shipped two quietly significant pieces of infrastructure plumbing while the broader industry got a reminder that moving fast with AI is not the same as moving well. Google I/O brought the usual wave…
If you are a senior cloud or platform engineer at a UK enterprise right now, there is roughly a one-in-two chance your team has been restructured in the last 18 months. Platform engineering teams are being disbanded or reshaped at…
Riot Games cut $10 million from its annual infrastructure bill by moving from a self-managed Mesosphere environment to Amazon EKS with Karpenter. That figure makes headlines, and rightly so. What gets less attention is that a comparable savings opportunity is…
S3 Intelligent-Tiering has acquired a reputation as a safe default: enable it across your buckets, pay a small per-object monitoring charge, and let AWS automatically move cold data to cheaper storage tiers. The pitch is appealing, especially at scale, when…
It has been a week dominated by platform stories, which is fitting because that is exactly where the most important enterprise decisions are being made right now. Whether it is data infrastructure, compliance architecture, or agentic AI, every major vendor…
Cloud engineers are, as an industry, remarkably good at calculating infrastructure costs to the penny. Spot instance pricing, reserved capacity discounts, egress fees at three in the morning: the numbers get scrutinised. Yet many of those same engineers are donating…
