Dispatches

Field notes, as we ship them.

Notes on cloud, AWS and Azure, Kubernetes, CI/CD and reliability, written while doing the work. Every claim is sourced from vendor documentation, and the sources are listed at the bottom of each post.

Latest dispatches

FinOps · AWS EC2

EC2 Cost Plans, Without the Marketing

Seven ways to pay for the same machine, and the rates differ by more than three times. What each option discounts, what it locks you into, and why Compute Savings Plans cap at 66% rather than the 72% everyone quotes.

Read the post → 4 August 2026 · 11 min read

AI Infrastructure · AWS

Five Ways to Run AI Infrastructure on AWS

Start with the question everyone skips: why route AI through AWS at all, when a vendor API key ships faster? Then the five architectures once you have answered it, from a single Bedrock call to a GPU cluster you patch yourself.

Read the post → 4 August 2026 · 12 min read

More dispatches in progress

What we will cover next

FinOps

Where cloud waste actually hides, and the moves that reclaim a third of the bill without touching the product.

Security & Compliance

What procurement asks for, why ad-hoc cloud fails enterprise review, and the checklist that unblocks bigger customers.

Reliability

Turning “we think it is up” into an SLO you can put in a contract, and measure when it is breached.

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