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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?A cloud landing zone should make the next workload easier and safer to deploy. Too often, it becomes a long platform program that tries to…
Read analysis : How to Design a Cloud Landing Zone Without Overengineering ItManaged cloud services are often presented as an obvious upgrade from infrastructure you operate yourself. The provider handles more of the stack; your engineers focus…
Read analysis : Managed Cloud Services vs Self-Managed Infrastructure: A Decision FrameworkEvent-driven architecture is often presented as the natural next step for systems that need to scale. Replace direct service calls with queues, publish events, add…
Read analysis : Event-Driven Architecture vs Request-Response: When Should You Introduce Asynchronous Systems?A monolith does not become obsolete when traffic grows, the codebase gets large, or the application moves to the cloud. It becomes a constraint when…
Read analysis : Monolith vs Microservices: When Should You Actually Split Your Application?
