A Senior cloud engineer can hold five certifications, ship flawless infrastructure for three years, and still watch a colleague with a thinner CV get promoted to Principal first. The difference usually shows up in a room the more qualified engineer…
64% of organisations use the Kubernetes Horizontal Pod Autoscaler to manage workload capacity, and most of those autoscaling policies scale on exactly one signal: CPU or memory utilisation. Only 20% scale on anything else. The other 80% inherited a default…
The FinOps Foundation’s State of FinOps 2025 report, drawn from organisations responsible for over $69 billion of cloud spend, found that only a small minority of organisations have reached “Run” maturity, with the majority still at “Walk” or “Crawl” stage.…
Five stories this week, and remarkably few of them are about doing more. AWS gave Kubernetes clusters an undo button, Microsoft detailed the AI system that already decides whether you are having an outage, and Google Cloud picked up a…
Cloud egress costs arrive as a billing surprise. They appear across dozens of line items that nobody owns, growing steadily month over month in a way that makes attribution difficult and root cause harder to establish. The standard response is…
Senior cloud engineers in the UK spend an average of 392 hours a year in meetings. That is more than sixteen full working days. And yet meeting fluency, the actual skill of running rooms, driving decisions and translating technical judgement…
Microsoft Build consumed most of this week’s cloud news with a coherent agentic push. Two AWS items cut through independently: a redesigned Bedrock console and a Cognito feature that removes a long-standing single-region constraint. Cobalt 200 Brings Custom Arm Silicon…
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…
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…
Fully remote cloud engineering roles in the UK have halved since their pandemic peak, yet demand from engineers has never been higher. Remote job postings fell from 8.7% of all UK vacancies at their 2020-21 high to just 4.3% by…
