Category Cloud Architecture

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Cloud-Native Backups: Snapshot APIs vs Traditional Agents

The Problem You’re running Veeam or Commvault in the cloud with agents on every VM, paying licensing costs, managing agent updates, dealing with backup windows that impact production, and still waiting 2-4 hours for VM restores. Your backup solution was…

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GCP Landing Zone Setup: A Practical Guide for Cloud Architects

The landscape of Google Cloud Platform adoption shifted dramatically in May 2024. Organisations creating new GCP accounts now receive automatic security baseline enforcement: a paradigm change that elevated landing zones from “nice to have” to foundational infrastructure. For cloud architects…

Glowing AWS cloud with an orange shield at the center, surrounded by neon icons of storage disks, a vault, and a Glacier archive, symbolizing backup resilience and ransomware protection.

AWS Backup Strategies in 2025: Beyond S3 Lifecycle Rules

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…

AWS Database Showdown: Choosing Your Perfect Match

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…