Most Cloud Run deployments are running with their default concurrency setting of 80, their billing mode unchanged from the install default, and their VPC connectivity wired through a Serverless VPC Access connector that was provisioned two years ago. Each of…
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…
Most architects evaluating GCP networking start with the wrong question. After years of building on AWS or Azure, the instinct is to ask “how do I connect my VPCs across regions?” and then spend weeks designing transit VPC patterns, cross-region…
Pub/Sub is a natural fit for event-driven architectures on GCP, but it has a default behaviour that catches enterprise teams off guard. When a subscriber fails to acknowledge a message, Pub/Sub retries delivery indefinitely until the message retention window closes,…
Most GCP Cloud Armor deployments follow the same pattern: enable the service, attach the preconfigured OWASP rulesets, move on. It feels complete. The problem is that preconfigured rulesets and custom CEL expressions operate on fundamentally different parts of the request…
Most GCP teams enable the Container Scanning API, check the Artifact Registry console once, and consider the job done. The scan results sit there, a growing list of CRITICAL and HIGH severity CVEs, while the pipeline keeps pushing images to…
Cloud Spanner is the only commercial database guaranteeing external consistency across every region on the planet, backed by a 99.999% availability SLA. For enterprise architects weighing database decisions worth £50,000-£500,000+ annually, understanding exactly when this matters (and when it doesn’t)…
Cloud Storage buckets silently drain budgets when organisations treat all data equally. A 2024 analysis of enterprise GCP deployments revealed that 63% of object storage costs stem from data sitting in Standard storage class when Nearline or Coldline would suffice.…
GCP Committed Use Discounts (CUDs) offer 20-57% savings on compute resources, yet most organizations leave money on the table by purchasing commitments manually or not at all. The Cloud Billing API provides the data needed to automate CUD analysis, but…
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…
