Enterprises managing hundreds of RDS instances accumulate 1,000+ manual snapshots within months, driving storage costs to £2,000-£5,000 monthly. A UK financial services organisation discovered 847 snapshots older than their 90-day retention policy, costing £3,200 monthly in unnecessary storage fees. The…
Your weekly dose of actionable cloud wisdom to start the week right The Problem Your AWS bill shows £3,500/month in EBS storage costs, but you only have 50 active EC2 instances. You’ve got 200 unattached volumes from terminated test instances…
The days of treating backup as an afterthought are long gone. In 2025, backup strategy sits firmly in the realm of business continuity, security architecture, and cost optimisation. The question facing architects and cloud teams today isn’t whether to implement…
Your weekly dose of actionable cloud wisdom to start the week right The Problem Your AWS architecture has grown organically over years, nobody’s sure if it follows best practices, and manual Well-Architected reviews happen once a year (if at all).…
Modern applications face an unforgiving reality: users expect sub-second response times regardless of their location on the globe. Whether streaming live sports content to millions of viewers, powering real-time gaming experiences, or enabling autonomous vehicle communications, the difference between success…
The enterprise technology landscape shifted dramatically when Broadcom acquired VMware, leaving many organisations questioning their hybrid cloud strategies. Enter AWS Elastic VMware Service (EVS) – Amazon’s answer to the growing demand for VMware alternatives that don’t force companies to abandon…
In the ever-expanding universe of AWS, few decisions have more impact on your application’s performance, scalability and cost than selecting the right database service. The right choice can propel a project forward—while the wrong one can lead to costly refactoring…
