There is a diagram that appears in AWS architecture reviews so reliably it has become invisible: producer publishes to an SNS topic, which fans out to a set of SQS queues, each consumed by a downstream service. It is clean.…
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…
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…
It has been a busy week across the major clouds, with announcements spanning AI agent infrastructure, Kubernetes performance, database architecture, and a heavyweight statement of intent from Microsoft on the European market. Underneath the noise, there is a clear theme:…
Unplanned cloud downtime costs UK enterprises an average of £4,700 per minute, yet the majority of organisations running in the cloud today have never successfully tested their recovery procedures under realistic conditions. The number is striking not because outages are…
Multi-cloud architectures combining GCP with existing AWS or Azure environments deliver measurable business value, but only when implemented with clear strategic intent. Enterprises adopting this approach report 20-40% cost reductions through vendor negotiation leverage, while accessing best-of-breed capabilities like GCP’s…
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 reactive cloud management are rapidly drawing to a close. Whilst traditional approaches have relied on predefined rules and manual intervention, a new paradigm is emerging where artificial intelligence doesn’t merely assist with cloud operations, it orchestrates them.…
The hybrid cloud revolution has reached a tipping point. With over 90% of IT leaders planning to revamp their cloud strategies in the next two years, organisations worldwide are discovering that the question isn’t whether to adopt hybrid cloud architectures,…
