Choosing a Cloud Region: Latency, Residency and Cost
Region choice affects speed, legal exposure and price. Here is how to weigh the three.
Cloud account guides
Practical writing on choosing a provider, securing an account after handover, and getting real work running on each platform.
SPF, DKIM and DMARC: Getting Email Delivered
The three DNS records that decide whether your mail reaches the inbox, explained in the order you should set them up.
Egress Fees: The Cloud Cost Nobody Budgets For
Why moving data out of a cloud costs money, how much it varies between providers, and how to design around it.
Port 25, Outbound SMTP and Why Most Clouds Block It
Why providers block outbound mail by default, which ones will unblock it, and what to do when yours will not.
What Cloud Credits Actually Are, and How They Behave
Credits offset cloud spend, but they expire, they do not cover everything, and they change how billing alerts behave.
Setting Billing Alerts Before You Deploy Anything
Cloud bills grow from resources nobody remembers starting. Here is how to make sure you find out in a day rather than a month.
Rotating Access Keys Without Breaking Production
Long-lived API keys are the most commonly leaked cloud credential. Here is how to rotate them safely and how to stop needing them.
Least Privilege in Practice: Setting Up Users on a New Cloud Account
How to move off the root login, structure permissions so they stay manageable, and avoid the mistakes that make IAM painful later.
How to Enable MFA on Every Major Cloud Provider
Where the multi-factor setting lives on each platform, which factor type to choose, and how to avoid locking yourself out.
The Cloud Account Security Checklist to Run on Day One
The exact sequence to work through in the first hour after you receive credentials for any cloud account.
Kamatera Accounts: What You Get and How to Choose a Configuration
What a Kamatera account includes, how the platform charges, and how to choose between the available configurations.
Google Workspace Accounts: What You Get and How to Choose a Configuration
What a Google Workspace account includes, how the platform charges, and how to choose between the available configurations.
Alibaba Cloud Accounts: What You Get and How to Choose a Configuration
What a Alibaba Cloud account includes, how the platform charges, and how to choose between the available configurations.
IBM Cloud Accounts: What You Get and How to Choose a Configuration
What a IBM Cloud account includes, how the platform charges, and how to choose between the available configurations.
UpCloud Accounts: What You Get and How to Choose a Configuration
What a UpCloud account includes, how the platform charges, and how to choose between the available configurations.
Amazon SES Accounts: What You Get and How to Choose a Configuration
What a Amazon SES account includes, how the platform charges, and how to choose between the available configurations.
Hetzner Accounts: What You Get and How to Choose a Configuration
What a Hetzner account includes, how the platform charges, and how to choose between the available configurations.
Oracle Cloud Accounts: What You Get and How to Choose a Configuration
What a Oracle Cloud Infrastructure account includes, how the platform charges, and how to choose between the available configurations.
OVHcloud Accounts: What You Get and How to Choose a Configuration
What a OVHcloud account includes, how the platform charges, and how to choose between the available configurations.
Linode Accounts: What You Get and How to Choose a Configuration
What a Linode (Akamai Cloud) account includes, how the platform charges, and how to choose between the available configurations.
DigitalOcean Accounts: What You Get and How to Choose a Configuration
What a DigitalOcean account includes, how the platform charges, and how to choose between the available configurations.
Azure Accounts: What You Get and How to Choose a Configuration
What a Microsoft Azure account includes, how the platform charges, and how to choose between the available configurations.
Google Cloud Accounts: What You Get and How to Choose a Configuration
What a Google Cloud account includes, how the platform charges, and how to choose between the available configurations.
AWS Accounts: What You Get and How to Choose a Configuration
What a Amazon Web Services account includes, how the platform charges, and how to choose between the available configurations.