CLOUD.RICH / STRATEGY & ARCHITECTURE
How do you design a cloud solution that scales? Start with the decisions that shape its architecture, cost, and resilience.
Explore the analysis Independent thinking. Lasting decisions.THE EDITORIAL
Architecture, economics, and the practices
that make cloud systems work.
Cloud discounts can make commitment look like an obvious optimization: if the workload will still be running next year, why keep paying an on-demand rate?…
Read analysis : On-Demand vs Committed Cloud Capacity: When Should You Trade Flexibility for a Lower Rate?A workload can survive a server failure, an availability-zone outage and the loss of individual services while still depending on one assumption: the cloud region…
Read analysis : Your Cloud Is Resilient. But What Happens When the Region Dies?A second cloud region can protect a workload from regional failure. It can also double parts of the infrastructure, complicate data consistency, expand the operational…
Read analysis : When Does a Cloud Architecture Actually Need Multiple Regions?A second cloud region can remove an important failure domain, but it also creates new ones: replication lag, inconsistent state, routing dependencies, configuration drift and…
Read analysis : Single Region vs Multi-Region: When Is a Second Cloud Region Worth the Complexity?Active-active sounds like the stronger resilience architecture. Multiple environments are already running, traffic is already flowing, and there is no cold recovery stack waiting to…
Read analysis : Active-Active vs Active-Passive Architecture: Which Resilience Model Do You Actually Need?Stateless architecture is often presented as the default for cloud-native applications: keep compute interchangeable, scale horizontally and replace failed instances without worrying about what they…
Read analysis : Stateless vs Stateful Architecture: What Should Your Application Actually Be?EXPLORE BY DISCIPLINE
Build for the scale you need. Leave room for what comes next.
02Compute, storage, networking, and the foundations of modern cloud platforms.
03Understand what your cloud costs — and what it delivers.
04Protect your systems with clear identity, access, and security boundaries.
05Understand latency, capacity, and the trade-offs behind efficient systems.
06Move and modernize without losing sight of risk.
THE CLOUD.RICH PERSPECTIVE
What needs to scale? What can fail? What should you manage yourself? We explore the trade-offs behind durable cloud decisions.
