The Cloud Bill Always Comes Due: Hard Lessons in FinOps from a Decade of Enterprise Cloud Migrations

The first time I saw a cloud bill exceed a million dollars in a single month, I knew something had fundamentally changed about how we needed to think about infrastructure. This wasn’t a massive enterprise with unlimited budgets—it was a mid-sized company that had enthusiastically embraced “cloud-first” without understanding what that commitment actually meant financially. […]

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Multi-Cloud AI Strategies: Avoiding Vendor Lock-in

Multi-cloud AI strategies prevent vendor lock-in and optimize costs. After implementing multi-cloud for 20+ AI projects, I’ve learned what works. Here’s the complete guide to multi-cloud AI strategies. Figure 1: Multi-Cloud AI Architecture Why Multi-Cloud for AI Multi-cloud strategies offer significant advantages: Vendor independence: Avoid lock-in to single cloud provider Cost optimization: Use best pricing […]

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