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Part 4 of the Rack2Cloud Cloud’2 Cloud Fragility Series The Boiling Frog Economy Take a look at your cloud bill from January 2026. Did you notice anything weird? Traffic’s steady. Users didn’t flood in overnight. Your code hasn’t changed much. Yet your invoice jumped 18%. For years, cloud companies fought over compute prices. They slashed…
The biggest lie we tell junior engineers is that Terraform is a compiler. We hand them a .tf file and say, “This is the infrastructure.” It isn’t. If Terraform were truly “Infrastructure as Code,” then the code would be the source of truth. But anyone who has operated a real cloud environment—especially one with multiple…
The “$7,200” ClickOps Tax: A single untagged Load Balancer, forgotten for 36 months, wasted thousands. Multiply that by 400 POCs, and you have a financial problem that no amount of cost optimization tooling can fix. If you walk into a warehouse and throw a box in the middle of the aisle without a barcode, that…
When I posted my Llama 3.2 benchmarks on r/AWS few days ago, the reaction was a mix of excitement and outright disbelief. “It feels broken,” one engineer commented, referencing their own 12-second spin-up times for similar workloads. Another asked if I was violating physics. I understand the skepticism. For years, the industry standard for “Serverless…
Standard cloud doctrine says: “Span multiple Availability Zones (AZs) for reliability.” In AI training, that doctrine will bankrupt you. I recently audited a cluster of 128 H100s running at only 35% utilization. The hardware wasn’t broken. The team had simply followed the AWS “Well-Architected Framework” and spread the nodes across three AZs. In a web…
I recently audited a client’s AWS bill that had spiraled out of control. They hadn’t spun up massive new GPU clusters. They hadn’t doubled their user base. What they had done was connect a legacy on-prem reporting tool to an S3 bucket, assuming “Hybrid Cloud” meant the best of both worlds. Instead, they were hit…
For a decade, “Cloud First” wasn’t just a strategy; it was dogma. If you weren’t aiming for 100% public cloud, you were viewed as “legacy.” Buying servers felt retro. Then came the Generative AI boom, and with it, a harsh physical and economic reality check. As we settle into 2026, enterprises are facing an “AI…
If you had told me in 2024 that I’d be running production GenAI workloads on AWS Lambda, I would have laughed you out of the room. Back then, Lambda was for glue code, JSON shuffling, and maybe a cron job. The idea of shoving a memory-hungry, GPU-craving LLM into a 15-minute ephemeral function felt like…
Having designed enterprise infrastructure for over 15 years, I remember when an Enterprise Agreement (EA) felt like a genuine partnership. You committed to spending millions, and, in return, the vendor gave you a break. It was a handshake deal: “You scale up, we lower the unit cost.” However, those days are dead. I was recently…
