Cloud Accounts for Researchers and Academic Workloads
Research computing has an unusual shape: bursty demand, fixed grants, reproducibility requirements and data that often cannot move. What that implies for a cloud account.
Choosing a Provider
The provider decision framed by who is making it: startups, agencies managing client infrastructure, researchers, and multi-provider setups.
Multi-Provider Cloud Strategy: The Practical Version
Using more than one provider is usually right for cost and leverage and usually wrong as a redundancy plan. How to split workloads along the seams that already exist.
Cloud Accounts for Agencies Managing Client Infrastructure
Running infrastructure for other people is a different problem from running your own. Separation, billing, access and exit are the four that decide whether it stays manageable.
Cloud Accounts for Startups: The First Twelve Months
The decisions that are cheap now and expensive in a year: account structure, provider choice, commitments, and what not to build yet.