The building blocks. Compute, storage, networking, regions, quotas and the operational details behind them.
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.
Email and Workspace
Almost every cloud provider blocks outbound SMTP on new accounts. Here is why, what each one does about it, and how to decide whether you need it lifted at all.
AWS
VcpuLimitExceeded is the most common wall a new AWS account hits. Here is how the quota system is grouped, how to read your real limit, and how to get it raised.
Cloud Pricing
Egress pricing varies by two orders of magnitude between providers. For anything content heavy, it is the number that decides where you should be hosting.
Cloud Infrastructure
Two providers quoting four vCPUs may be selling quite different amounts of compute. Here is what the unit means and how to compare honestly.
Microsoft Azure
Azure VM names encode the family, the generation, the processor and the storage capability. Reading them takes a minute and saves a lot of over provisioning.
Cloud Infrastructure
Region selection is a decision you make once and live with. Four factors decide it, and price is usually the least important of them.
Google Cloud
Google names machine families by what they optimise for rather than by workload archetype. Here is what each letter means and where the custom shapes pay off.
AWS
EC2 instance names are a compressed spec sheet. Once you can read the letters and digits, choosing a size stops being guesswork.
Cloud Infrastructure
Most migrations fail on the parts nobody listed: DNS, secrets, egress bills and the managed service with no equivalent. Here is the order that works.
