Multi-Cloud (OCI/Azure/Other)

AKS

Managed Kubernetes. Auto-scaling, VNet integration.

Alibaba Anti-DDoS + Cloud Firewall

Managed DDoS + firewall for Asia.

alibaba_apsaradb_rds

Alibaba Container Service (ACK)

Managed Kubernetes. Serverless (ASK).

Alibaba Elastic Compute Service (ECS)

Alibaba's EC2 equivalent. Instance families.

Alibaba Function Compute

Serverless functions. Similar to Lambda.

Alibaba MaxCompute

Massive-scale data warehouse. Similar to BigQuery.

Alibaba Model Studio + Qwen

Qwen LLMs as managed API. Foundation models.

Alibaba Object Storage Service (OSS)

S3-compatible + native. Multi-region.

Alibaba Tablestore

Wide-column NoSQL. Like DynamoDB + Bigtable.

Azure App Service

PaaS for web apps. Multi-runtime. Enterprise-ready.

Oracle Autonomous Database

Self-driving, self-securing, self-repairing.

Azure Arc

Manage on-prem + other clouds from Azure.

Azure Batch

Managed HPC + batch compute.

Azure Cognitive Services + AI Services

Vision, Speech, Language, Decision APIs.

Azure Container Apps

Serverless containers. Dapr integration. KEDA autoscaling.

Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2

Blob + hierarchy + POSIX. Big data foundation.

Azure DevOps

Repos + Pipelines + Boards + Test Plans + Artifacts.

Azure Files

SMB + NFS shares. AD integration.

Azure Functions

Consumption, Premium, Dedicated plans.

Azure Key Vault

Managed keys + secrets + certs.

Azure Load Balancer Family

Standard LB, Application Gateway, Front Door, Traffic Manager.

Azure Managed Disks

OS + data disks. Standard/Premium/Ultra tiers.

Azure Machine Learning Studio

End-to-end ML platform. Notebooks + training + endpoints.

Azure OpenAI Service

OpenAI models via Azure. Enterprise features.

azure_purview

Microsoft Sentinel

Cloud-native SIEM + SOAR.

Azure SQL Database

Managed SQL Server. Serverless + Hyperscale.

azure_synapse

Azure Virtual Machines

VM series: D, E, F, B, N. Similar to EC2.

Azure Virtual Network (VNet)

Regional networks. Subnets. Similar to AWS VPC.

Bicep + ARM Templates

Azure IaC. Bicep transpiles to ARM.

Azure Blob Storage

Object storage. Hot/Cool/Cold/Archive tiers.

Cloud AI Platforms Compared

How Vertex AI, SageMaker, and Azure ML compare.

Cloud autoscaling

Deep-dive on cloud autoscaling: metrics and scaling policies (target tracking, step, scheduled), scale out/in with cooldowns, horizontal vs vertical, …

Cloud CDN architecture

Deep-dive on cloud CDN: PoP, shield tier, cache keys, TTL, purge, WAF, edge compute, TLS termination, observability.

Cloud Container Services

How different clouds provide container services and how to choose.

Cloud Cost Analysis

How to analyze cloud costs: tools, tagging, allocation.

Cloud Cost Optimization

The 5 biggest cloud cost levers: rightsizing, reserved capacity, spot, storage tiering, and idle resource cleanup.

Cloud Data Lakes

How cloud data lakes work: object storage + query engines (Athena, BigQuery, Synapse).

Cloud Data Movement

How to move data efficiently between regions + clouds.

Cloud Disaster Recovery

The DR strategies (backup, pilot light, warm standby, active-active) with RPO/RTO trade-offs.

Cloud Disaster Recovery Architecture in Depth

A 2500-word walkthrough of cloud DR: RPO/RTO, tiers, replication, compute standby, failover automation, runbooks, drills, failback.

Cloud Edge Compute

How edge compute (CloudFront Functions, Cloud Run edge, workers) runs code near users.

Cloud Egress Costs

How egress costs work and strategies to minimize.

Cloud egress cost architecture

Deep-dive on cloud egress cost: cross-AZ, cross-region, internet, VPC endpoints, CDN offload, compression, Direct Connect, attribution.

Cloud FinOps

How FinOps practices bring visibility + accountability to cloud spend.

Cloud FinOps Architecture in Depth

A 2500-word walkthrough of cloud FinOps: cloud bill, tagging, attribution, reservations + spot, rightsizing, anomaly detection, budget alerts, FinOps …

Cloud Governance

How to establish cloud governance: policies, guardrails, cost controls.

Cloud Hybrid

How hybrid cloud combines on-prem + cloud.

Cloud IAM architecture

Deep-dive on cloud IAM: identity, workload identity, roles, policies, permission boundaries, SCPs, ABAC, session controls, and audit.

Cloud KMS architecture

Deep-dive on Cloud KMS: DEK, KEK, root key, envelope encryption, access policy, rotation, regional isolation, audit, cross-account grants.

Managed Kubernetes Across Clouds

How EKS, GKE, AKS differ, and what portable K8s looks like.

Cloud Landing Zone Architecture in Depth

A 2500-word walkthrough of a cloud landing zone: management/security/network accounts, OU structure, guardrails, baseline, SSO, logging, cost, and aut…

Cloud Migration Patterns

The 6 R's of cloud migration and when each pattern makes sense.

Multi-Cloud Architecture in Depth

A 2500-word walkthrough of multi-cloud: workload, abstraction, landing zones, identity, data placement, networking, cost, observability, compliance.

Cloud Multi-Region

How to deploy across multiple cloud regions for latency, sovereignty, resilience.

Cloud-Native Analytics Compared

How cloud analytics services compare: BigQuery, Redshift, Snowflake, Synapse.

Cloud-Native Databases Compared

How cloud databases compare: Spanner, Aurora, Cosmos DB, DynamoDB.

Cloud-Native ML Compared

How cloud ML platforms + services compare.

Cloud networking architecture

Deep-dive on cloud networking: VPC, subnets, route tables, NAT, peering, PrivateLink, DNS, security groups, NACL, flow logs.

Cloud object storage architecture

Deep-dive on cloud object storage: buckets, storage classes, consistency, versioning, lifecycle, replication, encryption, access.

Private connectivity -- reaching services without the internet

Deep-dive on cloud private connectivity (AWS PrivateLink, GCP Private Service Connect, Azure Private Link): the public-exposure problem, the private e…

Cloud Region Selection

How to choose cloud regions: latency, compliance, cost.

Cloud secrets architecture

Deep-dive on cloud secrets management: secret manager, rotation, injection, versioning, short-lived leases, audit, compliance.

Cloud Security Baseline

The minimum cloud security practices: MFA, IAM, encryption, logging, patching.

Cloud Serverless

How serverless functions (Lambda, Cloud Functions, Azure Functions) compare.

Serverless architecture

Deep-dive on serverless: event sources, triggers, runtime, auto scale, concurrency, cold start, timeouts, DLQ, observability.

Spot capacity architecture

Deep-dive on running production workloads on spot instances: capacity pools and allocation strategies, interruption-notice plumbing and drain controll…

Cloud WAF -- filtering malicious web traffic at the edge

Deep-dive on cloud WAF: the block-attacks need, managed rules (OWASP/known threats), custom rules, rate-based rules, SQLi/XSS blocking, bot management…

The Well-Architected framework -- pillars for sound cloud systems

Deep-dive on the Well-Architected framework: the six pillars (operational excellence, security, reliability, performance efficiency, cost optimization…

Cloud Zero Trust

How zero trust architecture applies in cloud: verify every request, no implicit trust.

Cloudflare Access

SSO gateway for internal apps.

Cloudflare D1

SQLite at edge. Read replicas globally.

Cloudflare Durable Objects

Coordinated stateful workers. Global consistency.

Cloudflare KV

Global eventually-consistent KV. Fast reads.

Cloudflare R2

Zero egress fees. Big differentiator.

Cloudflare Radar

Internet trends + threat data. Public dashboard.

Cloudflare Tunnels (cloudflared)

Outbound-only agents connect apps to Cloudflare.

Cloudflare Vectorize

Vector DB at edge. RAG on Workers.

Cloudflare Workers

V8 isolates. Sub-millisecond cold start. Edge JS.

Cloudflare Zero Trust

Access + Gateway + Tunnels. VPN alternative.

Cosmos DB

Multi-model NoSQL. Global distribution. Multiple APIs.

Azure Databricks

Databricks natively integrated. VNet injection.

Microsoft Defender for Cloud

CSPM + workload protection. Multi-cloud.

Alibaba DingTalk Integration

Enterprise messaging + AI in Chinese market.

DigitalOcean App Platform

Heroku-like PaaS. Apps from GitHub.

DigitalOcean Droplets

Simple VMs. Predictable pricing.

DigitalOcean Managed Kubernetes

Simplest managed K8s. Free control plane.

DigitalOcean Spaces

S3-compatible object storage.

Microsoft Entra ID (was Azure AD)

Cloud identity. B2B, B2C. Zero-trust.

Exadata Cloud + Exadata Cloud@Customer

Oracle's engineered systems in cloud + on-prem.

Fly.io Machines

Fast-starting Firecracker VMs. Global regions.

Fly.io Postgres

Managed Postgres with global replicas.

Fly.io Regions + Anycast

35+ regions globally. Anycast routing.

Fly.io Volumes

Local persistent storage per machine.

Heroku Dynos

Container abstraction. Eco/Basic/Standard/Perf tiers.

Heroku Postgres

Managed Postgres add-on.

Heroku Redis

Managed Redis add-on.

LiteFS

SQLite replication for Fly deployments.

Microsoft Fabric

Next-gen analytics. Unified SaaS.

Multi-Cloud Strategy

When multi-cloud makes sense (regulatory, resilience, negotiation), and when it's more cost than benefit.

MySQL HeatWave

MySQL + columnar analytics + ML in one. Cross-cloud.

Netlify Distributed Persistent Rendering (DPR)

On-demand static generation + caching.

Netlify Edge Functions

Deno at edge. Fast cold start.

Netlify Functions

AWS Lambda under Netlify. Edge + Background variants.

OCI AI Services

Vision, Language, Speech, Document Understanding.

OCI API Gateway

Managed API gateway. Free tier included.

OCI Bare Metal Compute

Physical servers on demand. Hypervisor-free.

OCI Base Database Service

Managed Oracle DB. VM Base + Bare Metal + Exadata options.

oci_bastion

OCI Block Volume

Balanced, Higher Perf, Ultra High Perf. Per-volume perf tuning.

OCI Compartments

Hierarchical resource containers.

OCI Compute

How OCI Compute provides VMs and bare metal instances, and where its pricing is dramatically different.

OCI Compute Shapes

E5 (AMD), X9 (Intel), A1 (Ampere ARM). Flex shapes.

OCI Container Instances

Serverless containers. Simpler than K8s.

OCI Data Safe

DB security + audit + masking + monitoring.

OCI FastConnect

Direct + Partner. Redundant pair for HA.

OCI File Storage

NFSv3. Multi-AD. Snapshots + clones.

OCI Always Free Tier

Best free tier among hyperscalers. Actually useful.

OCI Functions

Fn Project. Kubernetes-based under hood.

OCI Generative AI Service

Managed LLM API. Cohere + Meta models.

OCI GoldenGate

CDC + replication. Oracle DB + more.

OCI GPU Instances

NVIDIA GPUs available. Cluster options.

OCI IAM

How OCI IAM controls access via policies attached to compartments, and how it differs from AWS IAM.

OCI IAM

Compartment = OCI's unique concept.

OCI Load Balancer

Two flavors. Regional. Public + private.

OCI Logging

Managed log service. Log Analytics for advanced.

OCI Monitoring

Metrics + alarms. Auto-populated from services.

OCI Networking

How VCN (Virtual Cloud Network) works in OCI: subnets, gateways, route tables, and security lists.

OCI Object Storage

How OCI Object Storage works, its storage tiers, and the S3-compatible API.

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Overview

What OCI is, its distinctive architecture (compartments, tenancy), and where it fits versus AWS/GCP.

OCI Sovereign Cloud + Government Regions

Dedicated sovereign infrastructure. EU, US Gov, others.

OCI Streaming

Managed Kafka-API streaming.

OCI Vault

HSM-backed keys + secrets.

OCI Virtual Cloud Network (VCN)

Regional networks. Cross-region peering.

OKE

Managed Kubernetes. Basic + Enhanced tiers.

Microsoft Power Platform

Power Apps + Automate + BI + Virtual Agents.

Vercel Analytics + Speed Insights

Web analytics + performance monitoring.

Vercel Edge Functions

V8 isolates. Similar to Cloudflare Workers.

Vercel KV (Redis via Upstash)

Managed Redis. Serverless pricing.

Vercel Postgres (Neon)

Managed Postgres. Serverless.

Vercel Serverless Functions

Traditional Lambda-like. Node/Python/etc.

Azure VM Scale Sets

Managed VM fleets. Uniform vs Flexible orchestration.