Cloud Computing with Fexingo: AWS, Azure, GCP, and Modern Infrastructure Conversations

Episode 104 of Cloud Computing with Fexingo. Lucas and Luna unpack the latest cloud billing innovation: the multi-region write tax. AWS, Azure, and GCP now charge a premium for database writes that must replicate across two or more geographic regions for high-availability setups. Lucas explains how a standard Aurora Global Database on AWS can add $2,800 per terabyte per month in cross-region write...

In this episode, Lucas and Luna explore a new line item appearing on enterprise cloud bills: per-object tagging fees. AWS, Azure, and GCP have started charging for every tag applied to storage objects and compute resources, adding costs that were previously baked into storage or compute charges. The hosts break down how tagging fees work, what they mean for cost management, and why providers benef...

Episode 102 of Cloud Computing with Fexingo. Lucas and Luna dive into a new fee structure quietly appearing on cloud bills: charges for inbound data processing. For years, uploading data to the cloud was free, but AWS, Azure, and GCP are now testing or rolling out per-gigabyte fees for data ingestion through certain services like AWS Direct Connect and Azure ExpressRoute. Lucas breaks down the num...

Episode 101 of Cloud Computing with Fexingo uncovers a new hidden charge creeping into cloud bills: CPU cache access fees. Lucas and Luna explain how providers like AWS and Azure are starting to charge premium rates for instances that guarantee L3 cache capacity, turning what was once a shared resource into a metered one. They cite a 15-20% price jump for cache-reserved instances and discuss how t...

Episode 100 of Cloud Computing with Fexingo explores a quiet but seismic shift: major cloud providers are now embedding software licensing terms that functionally lock customers into their ecosystems for years. Lucas and Luna unpack how Microsoft, AWS, and Google have redesigned licensing—think SQL Server on Azure vs. AWS, or Windows Server mobility rights—to create 'license anchors' that make swi...

Episode 99 of Cloud Computing with Fexingo digs into the newest line item showing up on enterprise cloud invoices: a carbon-aware compute surcharge. Lucas and Luna explain how AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud are pricing virtual machine hours based on real-time grid carbon intensity in the data center's region. Lucas breaks down the mechanics — how providers track marginal emissions and apply a multip...

Cloud bills are getting more granular — and more expensive. In this episode, Lucas and Luna dig into the latest line item appearing on enterprise invoices: GPU memory bandwidth charges. AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud have all introduced per-gigabyte-per-second pricing for high-bandwidth memory on their AI training instances. Lucas explains how NVIDIA's H100 and B200 GPUs with HBM3 and HBM4 memory ar...

Episode 97 of Cloud Computing with Fexingo dives into the latest cloud billing twist: data transfer zone penalties. Major providers like AWS, Azure, and GCP now charge extra when data crosses regional or edge zones within the same cloud — not just between clouds or to the internet. Lucas and Luna unpack how a company moving data from US East to US West for disaster recovery saw a 22 percent bill i...

Episode 96 of Cloud Computing with Fexingo dives into the latest cloud billing trend: a surcharge for serverless cold starts. Lucas and Luna break down how AWS Lambda, Azure Functions, and Google Cloud Functions are now charging extra when functions are invoked after idle periods. They explore a real-world case: a retail analytics startup that saw its monthly bill jump 12% after introducing a new...

Episode 95 of Cloud Computing with Fexingo. Lucas and Luna break down the newest cloud pricing twist: per-hour surcharges on virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) sessions. Using a mid-size retail client's real experience, they trace how Microsoft Azure and AWS now bill for each active Windows desktop session beyond a baseline — adding 15–20% to monthly VDI costs. They debate whether this is a just...

Episode 94 of Cloud Computing with Fexingo zeroes in on a quietly growing line item in enterprise cloud bills: virtual network peering. Lucas and Luna break down how AWS, Azure, and GCP have shifted from including intra-region peering at no cost to charging per GB of data transferred between peered VPCs, with some providers adding per-hour endpoint fees. They discuss a real-world case of a mid-siz...

Episode 93 of Cloud Computing with Fexingo digs into the latest line item creeping onto cloud invoices: API gateway bandwidth charges. Lucas and Luna break down how AWS, Azure, and GCP are now metering data passing through their API management layers, often at rates that surprise engineering teams accustomed to free tier expectations. They walk through a real example from a mid-size SaaS company w...

Episode 92 of Cloud Computing with Fexingo uncovers a new line item creeping into cloud bills: per-query DNS charges. Lucas and Luna examine how AWS Route 53, Azure DNS, and Google Cloud DNS have quietly moved from flat monthly fees to usage-based pricing, with queries now costing $0.40 per million and a surcharge for private hosted zones. They break down how a mid-size e-commerce company saw its...

Episode 91 of Cloud Computing with Fexingo dives into the latest cloud billing trend: charges for data integrity verification services. Lucas and Luna break down why AWS, Azure, and GCP are introducing fees for checksum validation and cryptographic attestation, how these costs add up for enterprises storing petabytes of data, and whether this is a necessary security measure or a new form of lock-i...

Episode 90 dives into a new line item appearing on enterprise cloud bills: data egress charges specifically triggered by AI agents. Lucas explains how agentic workflows—where AI models autonomously call APIs, query databases, and return results—multiply egress costs compared to traditional user-driven traffic. The hosts examine Amazon Bedrock's new 'Agent Data Transfer' fee, how it compares to Azu...

Lucas and Luna break down a new line item appearing on enterprise cloud invoices: the reserved capacity deposit. Unlike traditional reserved instances that offer a discount in exchange for upfront commitment, this deposit requires customers to pay a non-refundable fee to 'hold' compute capacity in a specific region, even before they provision any resources. The hosts trace the origin of this pract...

Episode 88 of Cloud Computing with Fexingo unpacks a new charge appearing on enterprise cloud invoices: the network reliability fee. Lucas and Luna explore why AWS, Azure, and GCP are introducing this cost tied to SLA guarantees and latency commitments. They use a concrete example of a mid-size e-commerce company whose monthly bill jumped 12% after a regional outage triggered the fee. The episode...

In this episode, Lucas and Luna explore the latest cloud billing twist: egress fees for data moving from a public cloud to a customer's own private data center. They break down AWS's recent 2026 pricing change, which charges $0.09 per gigabyte for traffic exiting to on-premises infrastructure, even if the customer owns the network. The conversation covers why providers are pushing this, how it aff...

Episode 86 of Cloud Computing with Fexingo dives into the latest line item on enterprise cloud invoices: shared accelerator memory. Lucas explains how AWS, Azure, and GCP are now charging for GPU and TPU memory that was previously bundled into compute costs. He breaks down the pricing model using NVIDIA H100 GPUs on AWS as a concrete example, showing how a single 80 GB H100 can now incur an extra...

Lucas and Luna dive into a new line item quietly appearing on cloud invoices: the regional power premium. As data center electricity costs vary wildly by location — from subsidized rates in Iowa to grid-strained markets in Northern Virginia — cloud providers like AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud have begun passing those differences through to customers. The episode examines how the premium works, why...

Episode 84 of Cloud Computing with Fexingo digs into the evolving mechanics of cloud provider lock-in — specifically the 'stickiness' strategies that are harder to detect and costlier to escape. Lucas and Luna explore how hyperscalers like AWS, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud are embedding long-term commitments into managed services, data format dependencies, and AI platform integrations. They d...

Episode 83 of Cloud Computing with Fexingo digs into a quietly proliferating charge on enterprise cloud invoices: the storage access tier surcharge. Lucas and Luna explore how AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud are rolling out per-request fees for accessing cold and archive storage, with rates that can multiply costs for frequent reads. The episode uses a concrete example: a healthcare company that stor...

Episode 82 of Cloud Computing with Fexingo dives into the race among AWS, Microsoft, and Google to lay their own transoceanic fiber cables. Lucas and Luna break down why hyperscalers are bypassing traditional telecom carriers, how private cables cut latency by up to 30 percent, and what this means for enterprise cloud costs in 2026. Featuring the specific case of Google's Firmina cable and AWS's n...

Episode 81 of Cloud Computing with Fexingo examines a new line item appearing on enterprise cloud invoices: the data residency premium. Lucas and Luna break down why AWS, Azure, and GCP began charging extra for storing data in certain geographic regions starting late 2025. They focus on a concrete example: a mid-sized European fintech company that saw its monthly bill jump 18 percent after moving...

Episode 80 of Cloud Computing with Fexingo digs into a new line item appearing on enterprise cloud invoices: an explicit surcharge for container orchestration services like Kubernetes. Lucas and Luna break down how AWS EKS, Azure AKS, and Google GKE have started charging per cluster-hour and per pod-second, adding up to hundreds of thousands of dollars annually for heavy users. They examine a real...