Cloud infrastructure notes
Guides, comparisons and pricing explainers for the cloud platforms in our catalogue. Each article answers one specific question, and the price panels inside them read straight from the live product pages, so what you see here matches the checkout.
The provider guides cover accounts, quotas and billing one platform at a time. The comparisons put two providers side by side on the points that actually differ. The pricing pieces explain the line items that surprise people on a first invoice, including data transfer costs and how credits are consumed. Provider documentation stays the authority on limits and pricing, starting with the AWS documentation. When you have decided, the accounts are on the cloud services page.
Latest
How cloud credits work, and what expires first
Credits are simpler than they look and have more edges than people expect. Four rules cover almost every question about them.
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AWS
An AWS account is a billing and isolation boundary, not just a login. Here is what actually differs between a fresh account, an aged one and a credit backed one, and how to pick.
Cloud Providers
DigitalOcean is deliberately simple on the surface and has two account level settings that decide what you can actually do: the droplet limit and the SMTP policy.
Cloud Comparisons
For most organisations this is not a technical decision. Here is what genuinely differs, what does not, and the three questions that usually settle it.
Google Cloud
Google Cloud separates projects from billing accounts, which is why credits and quotas so often appear to be in the wrong place. Here is how the pieces fit.
Cloud Comparisons
These two differ more than AWS and Azure do. The billing model, the networking design and the data tooling all point in different directions.
Microsoft Azure
Azure splits identity, billing and resources across three layers. Knowing which layer holds the credit, the quota and the permissions explains most Azure confusion.
Cloud Providers
Hetzner is consistently the cheapest serious option in European cloud, and the reasons are structural rather than promotional. Here is what you get and what you give up.
Cloud Pricing
Every provider sells the same machine four or five ways. The choice between them is worth more than almost any architectural optimisation.
AWS
Bedrock throughput is governed by requests and tokens per minute, per model and per region. Here is how those limits interact, and why two accounts with the same plan behave differently.
