Notes from the cloud control plane.
Engineering write-ups, product updates, and opinions on European cloud sovereignty.
Cloud asset inventory: the infrastructure nobody remembers renting
Every cloud estate is bigger than its documentation, because the defaults favour the leftovers. The security case for finding it is harder than the cost case, and it is the one that should set your triage order.
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AIOps: what AI fixes in cloud operations, and what it does not
AI names the root-cause service in over 90% of incidents and picks a valid fix in barely half of them. That gap decides what you let it do, and two controls decide whether it is safe to have at all.
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Sovereign AI in Europe: where your prompt is actually computed
Sovereign AI in Europe is sold as a badge. Replace it with five checkable questions - entity, law, inference location, retention, sub-processors - and most EU AI data residency claims answer a different one.
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EU AI Act compliance is an inventory problem before a model problem
Regulation (EU) 2026/1744 moved deployer duties to 2 December 2027. Article 50 and AI literacy did not move. For an infrastructure team the work is an AI system inventory and a log retention policy.
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European cloud providers as an alternative to AWS: an honest scorecard
European cloud providers are a credible alternative to AWS for more workloads than most teams assume, and a bad one for a specific set. Here is the scorecard, per workload rather than per company.
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The hybrid cloud management platform that migrates nothing
A hybrid cloud management platform should not start with a migration. Here is what it takes to run rented cloud and your own racks from one place, without moving a single workload.
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An immutable audit log is only evidence if you can verify it
An immutable audit log that nobody can independently check is a claim, not evidence. Here is how hash chaining turns a log into a tamper-evident audit trail an external auditor can actually recompute.
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NIS2 compliance evidence: what a regulator actually asks for
NIS2 compliance evidence is not a policy PDF. It is records: who changed what, when, and on whose authority - reconstructable months later, by someone whose job is to doubt you.
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Bring your own cloud: keeping the provider contract, outsourcing the operations
Bring your own cloud (BYOC) means the provider accounts, contracts and invoices stay yours while someone else's software runs the day-to-day. Here is what that buys you, and what it demands from the platform.
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Cloud exit strategy: what changes when you can actually leave
A cloud exit strategy is not a migration plan you keep in a drawer. It is a measurable property of your architecture - and it changes how you negotiate, budget and sleep.
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Why EU data sovereignty matters in 2026
Sovereignty isn't a checkbox on a procurement form. It's a fundamental constraint that shapes architecture, pricing, and risk - and it's getting harder to ignore.
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FinOps for teams who don't have a FinOps team
Most FinOps content is written for enterprises with dedicated practices. Here's what the discipline actually looks like for a 30-person SaaS that just wants to stop wasting money.
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Your cloud platform should onboard you in 30 minutes
Enterprise infrastructure tools love long sales cycles, demo calls, and six-week proofs of concept. We think your first deploy should happen before your coffee gets cold.
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