Cloud Insights for teams running production workloads

Networking/ 5 min read Connecting an office to your VPC over site-to-site VPN Tunnels, routes and the two settings that cause most failed hybrid setups — a practical order of work for joining an office network to a cloud VPC. Sep 3, 2026 Networking/ 5 min read Segmenting a multi-tier application the auditors will accept Which tiers to separate, what to log, and how to document network boundaries so segmentation stands up to an audit rather than just looking tidy. Sep 3, 2026 Storage/ 5 min read Moving 40 TB into object storage without a maintenance window Two sync passes, a checksum verification and a DNS flip — the migration order that moves a large bucket with no downtime and no lost writes. Sep 3, 2026 Storage/ 5 min read Serving a video library from object storage and a CDN Where to cache, what to sign and how to keep origin traffic predictable when a growing video catalogue is served from object storage. Sep 3, 2026 Storage/ 5 min read Designing a retention policy that survives an audit How long to keep backups and logs, what to place beyond reach of an administrator, and what longer retention actually costs. Sep 3, 2026 Storage/ 5 min read Growing a database volume without downtime Resize the volume, extend the partition, grow the filesystem, verify — the order that avoids an outage, and the two steps people skip. Sep 2, 2026 Storage/ 5 min read A snapshot strategy that survives a real incident How often to snapshot, how long to keep them, what snapshots do not protect you from, and when to reach for Veeam instead. Sep 2, 2026 Storage/ 5 min read Block storage or object storage: which one for this data? A decision guide based on access pattern, latency tolerance and how the data grows — with the three cases where the answer is both. Sep 2, 2026 How-to/ 5 min read Inference is not training: sizing for serving, not for the run Training is throughput-bound and batch-friendly. Serving is latency-bound and bursty. Sizing one like the other is how GPU bills get strange. Sep 2, 2026 compliance/ 5 min read Fine-tuning an open-weight model in one EU region Keeping a fine-tune in one jurisdiction is an operations problem, not a legal one. The seven places training data actually leaves — and how to close them. Sep 2, 2026