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…
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…
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…
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:…
Kubernetes has achieved 96% enterprise adoption, yet 55% of Azure Kubernetes Service implementations fail their initial production readiness reviews. These failures cost organisations £100K-£500K in remediation work, delayed launches, and emergency architectural redesigns. The gap between “running Kubernetes” and “running…
Multi-cloud adoption reached 89% among enterprises in 2024, yet Gartner predicts 50% of these implementations will fail to deliver expected results by 2029. The disconnect between adoption and success reveals an uncomfortable truth: multi-cloud is frequently a solution searching for…
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…
The AWS Well-Architected Framework stands as the most widely adopted cloud architecture methodology globally, guiding infrastructure decisions for organisations managing billions in cloud spend. Yet many enterprises struggle to move beyond the framework’s conceptual guidance to make concrete architectural choices…
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…
