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Practical, no-fluff notes on cloud security, DORA, SOC 2 readiness and FinOps.

DORA · 2026-07-03

DORA readiness checklist for cloud teams

DORA has applied since January 2025. Here is what a cloud team actually has to produce, pillar by pillar: risk framework, incident process, testing evidence and the third-party register.

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Compliance · 2026-07-03

SOC 2 vs ISO 27001: which one do you actually need?

The two frameworks overlap heavily but are bought for different reasons. The honest decision usually comes down to who is asking: your US enterprise deals or your European regulated buyers.

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FinOps · 2026-07-03

Reducing cloud costs on AWS, Azure and GCP: what actually works

Most cloud bills contain the same handful of problems: oversized compute, unused commitments, forgotten storage and zero cost allocation. The fixes are unglamorous and repeatable.

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Platform · 2026-07-03

Cloud landing zone best practices for 2026

A landing zone is the difference between a cloud estate that stays governable and one that becomes archaeology. The load-bearing decisions: account structure, identity, guardrails, and everything in Terraform.

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AI · 2026-07-03

The EU AI Act for cloud operations teams

Most ops-facing AI tooling is not high-risk under the AI Act, but 'mostly out of scope' is not 'nothing to do'. Inventory, literacy and transparency duties apply now.

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