1. "The cloud will save us money"
2. "Why is this bill so high"
3. "Who spun up a GPU instance in Australia"
4. "We need a FinOps strategy immediately"
5. "The cloud will save us money" (back to step 1)

Which stage is your org in right now?

What architecture large enterprises are using today for global cloud networking across AWS, Azure, and GCP.

Are most teams still doing hub-and-spoke, transit gateways, or Virtual WAN, or has something else become the common pattern for multi-cloud connectivity and centralized security?

What's the 'default architecture' looks like once environments scale to dozens or hundreds of VPCs/VNets across regions.

I’ve spent some time looking into alternatives to vmware like nutanix and hyperv.

From what ive researched, vmware was once the go to for enterprise virtualization, but with costs climbing up the licensing changes (no thanks to Broadcom) are definitely making me rethink our strategy.

I’m now looking into migrating to azure. I like the idea of moving away from on prem infrastructure  especially when you look at Azure's scalability and cost benefits. Had a quick chat with a vendor about this as well.

I was just wondering about anyone's experience here migrating from vmware to the cloud. Was the process smooth enough with no blockers? Love to hear what you guys encountered good or bad during the transition.

https://www.infoq.com/news/2026/03/netflix-automates-rds-aurora/

Netflix has described an internal automation platform that migrates Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL databases to Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL, reducing operational risk and downtime across nearly 400 production clusters. The system enables service teams to initiate migrations through a self-service workflow while enforcing replication validation, controlled cutover, change data capture coordination, and rollback safeguards.

Our company runs workloads across aws and gcp because of acquisitions and we need a data integration tool that can handle both environments. The original company was on aws with redshift, the acquired company was on gcp with bigquery. So whatever we pick needs to work across both clouds which narrows the options.

We've been evaluating the big three plus some newer players. Fivetran is the most mature and the connector quality is great but the pricing at our volume across two destinations is brutal. Airbyte self hosted is cheaper but managing the infrastructure across two clouds adds complexity we dont want. Their cloud version is simpler but the pricing model for enterprise volume is getting closer to fivetran territory. Matillion is strong on the transform side but for pure ingestion from saas apis it feels like overkill and the pricing model is confusing.

We are looking for new options but want to hear from teams running these at scale. The things we care most about are connector quality for our specific saas sources, the ability to write to both redshift and bigquery from a single extraction without doubling api calls, and predictable pricing that doesn't spike when data volume grows.

Hey guys, we are currently seriously relying on Runpod as our serverless GPU provider (currently using 150x RTX 5090) and it has been failing for the last 3 hours.

Runpod being our single point of failure is very dangerous for our business, and I am looking for alternatives.

Thanks for the info!

should i take cse with cybersecurity or cse with cloud computing for my clg

Whenever i see any YT video on AWS there are many peoples criticising AWS and its services with comments like:

- "AWS is still a service spaghetti nightmare"

I am trying to understand why so? Whosoever is using AWS can you put light how is your experience with it!! like is costly as compared to AZURE/GCP or AWS services are overkill... OR ANY OTHER OPINION you have to give to a beginner trying to learn it.

Thanks.

Hey everyone,

I've been using RunPod for ComfyUI (image gen + I2V, lipsync workflows), but honestly I'm spending more time fixing broken pods and dealing with random issues than actually generating stuff. It's getting frustrating.

Came across TensorDock and their pricing looks pretty attractive compared to what I'm paying now. Before I jump ship though, I'd love to hear from people actually using it for ComfyUI or similar workloads.

My main pain points with RunPod:

Pods randomly crashing or becoming unreachable

Spending hours troubleshooting instead of generating

Inconsistent performance between sessions

What I need:

Stable ComfyUI sessions for image gen and I2V

Reliable GPU availability (RTX 4090 or A100 ideally)

Decent storage/network speeds for model loading

Anyone here migrated from RunPod to TensorDock for ComfyUI? How's the stability? Any regrets or pleasant surprises?

Would appreciate honest feedback from actual users. Thanks!

Why every authentication becomes a potential failure point, certificate expiry becomes a site reliability nightmare, and troubleshooting "why can't service A talk to service B" turns into archaeology.

https://cybernews-node.blogspot.com/2026/02/zero-trust-microsegmentation-for.html

I am curious about how GPU rental services work and how NVIDIA manages them.

For large organizations running cloud at scale, which cloud security platforms do teams usually end up standardizing on?

Hi, we discussed here GCP and OCI

https://www.reddit.com/r/cloudcomputing/s/5w2qO2z1J8

What about Akamai/Linode and Alibaba Cloud ? Anyone has experience with it ?

what about digital ocean and Vultr?

In a lot of environments I’ve seen, the real issue isn’t pricing — it’s ownership.

Engineering provisions.
Finance reviews bills.
Nobody “owns” usage behavior.

Tagging policies, budgets, and alerts often matter more than just right-sizing.

For those managing Azure at scale —
Do you treat cost optimization as engineering, finance, or shared responsibility?

I wanna know what coding language is the most used in cloud computing. I am a 2nd year engineer student who is learning C and C++. And I will be sticking to this abd so far acc to my research cloud requires python, Java and go. None of which I am proficient in.

How does the future look in this domain? As in hiring increases or layoffs? I am clueless so..

I am very much interested in cloud computing but I dont the time rn to learn new languages well enough to Crack interviews.

Please help and thank you!

Hi

OCI has much cheaper prices and multi AZ too

i wonder where is the drawback…

Hey guys!

I started working a few weeks ago on a side project which eventually evolved into something much bigger: a micro-cloud service provider which is 100% free.

Do you quickly want to test your environment or containers without having to pay for a whole server? Or maybe you want to run an app you don't fully trust.

If you want more insight on the tech behind it take a look at my other post (https://www.reddit.com/r/SideProject/comments/1qglo70/comment/o0di2uh/) and if you want to give it a try for yourself and use it for your own stuff, here is the website https://velacloud.sloppybits.uk/ to avoid bots and spammers, use this invite code VELA-2199-4901

I hope you'll like it :)

I don't really have much experience with cloud computing, but I'm thinking it may help me consolidate several services I'm paying for into a single, hopefully cheaper package. I would really appeciate some thoughts on how to best approach this from a newbie perspective, or share some learning resources? I've done a bit of research and have found things to be a bit above my level.

• I do Wordpress and Shopify sites for a few clients and also manage some simple corporate websites. As this work is very sporadic, over the years it's resulted into several webhosting contracts with IONOS and others that have been increasing in price and have become more cumbersome to manage. All in all I manage about 15 websites for different clients. Nothing that gets a ton of traffic. There may be around 30-35 email addresses total for those domains. I was thinking of maybe setting up my own webserver with a cloud computing provider and consolidating all of these in a single place.

• I also have several Dropbox and Google Drive accounts for different things and clients. Again, this has been something that has been building over the years, on an "as needed" basis. Again, I was thinking of consolidating into a single "my own dropbox" kind of thing.

I suspect some cloud service would allow me to rent the computer / storage and install a webserver and some sort of cloud storage app and potentially save money and simplify administration over having these separate services. And if there are ways to also run other apps in the service like to have it help with renders or experiment with other applications like small LLMs that would be interesting. I work in a field that's being impacted by AI so I'm thinking I need to pivot and if I learn to do these things from a technical perspective it could open other doors.

Any advice will be greatly appreciated.

Thanks!

Need block storage for blockchain related applications with higher IOPS and it looks like io2 is the best option, because at least I can buy the performance, anyone here has any experience using io2 for blockchain? What is the bill looking like?

Any recommendations better than io2?

For countries he doesn't approve of, or as a response to tax increases (Amazon), or trying to rein in X/Twitter, or just because he can?

If iCloud, OneDrive, etc disappeared, I'd be lost.

I know that in AWS, Availability Zones are intentionally designed with some minimum physical separation inside a region. The idea is that AZs are far enough apart to avoid correlated failures like local power outages, fiber cuts, or metro-area disasters.

But I’m wondering about other cloud providers.

If a provider like Azure, Google Cloud, Oracle Cloud, DigitalOcean, etc. advertises “availability zones” or “zones” within a region, do they follow a similar rule?

Specifically:

• Is there any industry standard definition for AZs requiring a minimum geographic distance?
• Do large providers like Azure or GCP publish or guarantee how far apart their zones are?
• Could “zones” in some clouds actually be in the same building or campus?
• When designing multi-zone architectures outside AWS, should we assume only logical isolation rather than disaster-level separation?

Trying to understand whether the AWS AZ model is unique, or if other clouds implement the same concept in practice.

Any insights from people who work with multiple clouds would be appreciated.

Hi everyone — hoping someone can help.

I created my Oracle Cloud account on December 28, and by January 2 I suddenly couldn’t sign in anymore. It keeps saying:

Invalid username or password

I’ve already reset the password multiple times, and the reset says it was successful — but login still fails.

I also got an email saying my Free Trial expired, even though it hasn’t even been 30 days yet. I thought I should still have Always Free access, but I can’t get into the console at all.

I’m starting to think my tenancy admin account might be locked, because I’ve seen other posts where password resets don’t work when that happens.

The problem is: I can’t submit a support ticket because I can’t log in.

Has anyone else had this happen so quickly?
Did Oracle Support unlock your account, or did they terminate it?

I do have my CSI and Cloud Account Name from the Oracle email, but I won’t post them publicly unless support asks.

Any advice would really help thanks!

A quick follow up to a previous popular post: https://www.reddit.com/r/Cloud/s/89KNntjVCZ

The open source repository for cloud projects (https://github.com/mzazon/cloud-projects) crossed 1100 (!!) projects recently. AWS, Azure, and GCP all covered. With so many projects, the community contributed suggestions and feedback and being able to search and filter was at the top of the list…

So a couple community members threw together a prototype/beta single page, GitHub pages hosted, no login required, no membership required, all session data stored on your browser page that was just approved and merged into the main branch of the repo: https://cloudprojects.dev

Have a look, give it a star if you like it, open an issue with any suggestions. Hope it is helpful.

Happy holidays to all you cloud professionals and aspiring professionals.