Cloud architecture guides

Guides on landing zones, networking, identity, Kubernetes cost, reliability, migration, FinOps, AI infrastructure and APAC architecture.

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  Cloud architecture

  Landing-zone decisions, account structure and production topology.

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  Landing zones

  Baseline environments, guardrails and account vending.

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  Networking

  Hub-and-spoke, private endpoints, DNS and egress paths.

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  Identity and security

  IAM, workload identity and cross-cloud trust.

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  Kubernetes and containers

  Cluster layout and Kubernetes cost allocation.

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  Serverless

  When functions replace long-running compute, and when they do not.

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  Reliability and disaster recovery

  Failure domains, RTO/RPO and cross-region failover.

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  Cloud migration

  Readiness assessment, dependency mapping and cutover planning.

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  FinOps and cost optimization

  Tagging, allocation, anomaly detection and commitments.

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  AI infrastructure

  GPU capacity, idle waste and inference unit cost.

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  Multi-cloud operations

  Identity, networking and operations across providers.

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  APAC architecture

  Region choice, data residency and Alibaba Cloud in APAC.