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.
A workload in a private cloud network may still connect to a managed database, storage service, or API through a publicly addressable service endpoint. That…
Read analysis : When Should Cloud Services Use Private Endpoints?When database reads become slow or expensive, two additions often appear on the architecture diagram: a cache and a read replica. Both can reduce pressure…
Read analysis : Cache or Read Replica: How Should You Scale Database Reads?A cloud migration creates an unusual opportunity: the workload is already being touched, its infrastructure is already changing, and long-standing architectural compromises are suddenly visible.…
Read analysis : Rehost, Replatform, or Refactor: How Much Should You Change During a Cloud Migration?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?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.
