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

In this episode of Cloud Computing with Fexingo, Lucas and Luna explore the emerging concept of data gravity and how it is reshaping cloud architecture in 2026. They dive into why AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud are redesigning their regions around where data naturally accumulates, using the example of a financial services firm that reduced latency by 40% by moving compute to a secondary region near...

Episode 53 of Cloud Computing with Fexingo dives into a growing cost center for cloud users: API access fees. Lucas and Luna break down how AWS, Azure, and GCP are increasingly charging per-call or per-transaction for APIs that were previously free or bundled into compute costs. They examine specific examples like AWS's per-API-call billing for Lambda and API Gateway, Azure's premium API Managemen...

Lucas and Luna dig into the quiet shift happening in cloud billing: how AWS, Azure, and GCP are increasingly using behavioral data—like peak usage timing, resource provisioning patterns, and API call frequency—to price services dynamically. They break down a real example: a mid-size SaaS company that saw its monthly bill jump 18% after consistently spinning up instances at the same hour each day,...

In 2026, cloud providers are quietly rewriting their service-level agreements. Lucas and Luna break down the shift from uptime-only SLAs to performance-based commitments, why AWS, Azure, and GCP are changing the fine print, and what this means for your cloud bill. They explore the rise of availability zone dependency disclaimers, SLA credit caps, and how enterprises are using third-party monitorin...

Episode 50 dives into a hidden revolution in cloud infrastructure: how AWS, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud are moving beyond traditional air cooling to liquid immersion and two-phase cooling for high-density AI racks. Lucas and Luna explore the specific pivot at a new Azure data center in Phoenix, where Microsoft is testing direct-to-chip liquid cooling for NVIDIA H200 GPUs. They discuss the th...

Lucas and Luna dive into a quiet but consequential change sweeping across AWS, Azure, and GCP: significantly tighter API rate limits. They break down why this matters beyond just 'don't call too fast' — exploring how new limits are reshaping application design, forcing architecture changes, and even impacting cost. Lucas shares a concrete example from a real-world deployment where a team hit an un...

Episode 48 of Cloud Computing with Fexingo dives into the hidden leverage inside cloud carbon accounting. Lucas and Luna explain why AWS, Azure, and GCP are now publishing granular emissions data — and how Google Cloud's 2025 carbon-free energy report gave multinationals a new bargaining chip. They walk through a real example: a European retailer using Microsoft's 2025 sustainability dashboard to...

Episode 47 dives into how Amazon, Microsoft, and Google are fundamentally redesigning data center architectures—from power delivery to server racks—to handle the intense demands of AI training and inference. Lucas and Luna examine a specific case: the cooling system overhaul at an AWS data center in Northern Virginia that cut power usage effectiveness by 15 percent while supporting triple the GPU...

Lucas and Luna explore why cloud providers are increasingly steering customers toward spot instances — the spare compute capacity sold at deep discounts. They unpack the economics: spot instances can save 60 to 90 percent versus on-demand pricing, but come with the risk of being reclaimed at two minutes' notice. The hosts discuss how AI workloads, batch processing, and even some real-time applicat...

Episode 45 of Cloud Computing with Fexingo drills into why cloud providers and enterprises are urgently adopting zero trust architecture (ZTA) in 2026. Lucas and Luna unpack the CrowdStrike outage that accelerated the shift, explain how ZTA replaces the old perimeter model with continuous verification, and walk through the real-world deployment at a mid-sized fintech. They also cover the cost trad...

Episode 44 of Cloud Computing with Fexingo unpacks a subtle but costly shift in how AWS, Azure, and GCP handle firewall rules. Lucas and Luna explore why default security group configurations now allow more outbound traffic by default, how a mid-size SaaS company saw its monthly data transfer costs jump 23% after a routine security update, and what teams should check before the next quarterly revi...

This episode of Cloud Computing with Fexingo explains why cloud storage tiers — hot, cool, cold, archive — might be costing you more than a single-tier approach. Lucas and Luna break down how AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud structure their tiered storage pricing, and why lifecycle policies that automatically move data to colder tiers can backfire with hidden retrieval and minimum storage duration fee...

Episode 42 of Cloud Computing with Fexingo dives into the evolving economics of cloud data egress fees in 2026. Lucas and Luna break down why major providers like AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud are reintroducing or restructuring egress charges, even as multicloud strategies surge. They explore a concrete example: a mid-sized fintech firm that saw its monthly egress bill jump 40% after shifting workl...

Lucas and Luna explore the hidden performance and cost disparities between cloud provider regions. They break down why a workload in us-east-1 behaves differently than one in ap-southeast-1, using real latency data and egress pricing examples. The episode covers how region selection affects everything from user experience to cloud bills, and offers practical tips for auditing your region strategy....

Episode 40 of Cloud Computing with Fexingo explores a quiet but critical battleground: data freshness. Lucas and Luna break down why stale data is costing companies millions in misinformed decisions, and how AWS, Azure, and GCP are now competing on real-time data infrastructure. The hosts examine a specific case — a mid-size logistics firm that cut forecasting errors by 40 percent after switching...

In this episode, Lucas and Luna explore why cloud bursting—moving workload spikes from on-premises to public cloud—is resurging in 2026. They focus on a specific mid-sized fintech, SwiftPay, which saved $2.3 million annually by bursting only data-intensive reconciliation jobs to Google Cloud during monthly peaks. Lucas explains how cloud providers have quietly lowered egress fees and improved inte...

Episode 38 of Cloud Computing with Fexingo explores the surprising shift happening inside AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud: they are finally making it easier to connect workloads across clouds. Lucas and Luna unpack the new cross-cloud networking services rolling out in 2026, including AWS's Direct Connect Inter-Cloud, Azure's Cross-Cloud Connect, and Google's Cross-Cloud Network. They discuss why pro...

Episode 37 of Cloud Computing with Fexingo: Lucas and Luna dig into a problem that's catching engineering teams off guard in 2026 — cloud-native storage performance. They break down the difference between local SSD, network-attached block storage, and object storage in AWS, Azure, and GCP, using real numbers: the 1–5 millisecond baseline for EBS gp3 versus the 200–600 millisecond p99 of S3 GET req...

Episode 36 of Cloud Computing with Fexingo dives into the hidden economics of cloud data egress fees. Lucas and Luna break down why AWS, Azure, and GCP are locking in customers with data transfer costs, using a real example of a mid-size SaaS company that saw its monthly bill double after moving 50 terabytes out of S3 to a rival cloud. They explain how these fees are structured, why they're rarely...

In 2026, running Kubernetes on the three major clouds is getting noticeably cheaper, but the savings come with strings attached. Lucas and Luna break down the specific pricing changes AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud have rolled out this year — like AWS's new Karpenter auto-scaler reducing compute overprovisioning by roughly 25 percent, Azure's reservation discounts on AKS clusters, and Google's susta...

Episode 34 of Cloud Computing with Fexingo drills into the growing strategic importance of cloud data egress fees. Lucas and Luna examine why major providers like AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud charge to move data out, how these fees have become a competitive battleground, and what enterprises can do to manage costs. They cite real examples: a fintech startup paying $80,000 per month in egress, and...

Episode 33 of Cloud Computing with Fexingo dives into one of the most frustrating charges on your cloud bill: data egress fees. Lucas and Luna break down why AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud have been increasing egress fees in 2026, using real-world examples like a startup that saw a 40% egress cost jump after moving to a multi-cloud setup. They explore the economics behind these fees—network infrastr...

In this episode of Cloud Computing with Fexingo, Lucas and Luna dive into the growing role of cloud usage analytics in cutting infrastructure waste. With cloud spending now a top-three expense for many companies, a new wave of tools—like Vantage, CloudHealth, and native AWS Cost Explorer—is helping teams identify idle resources, right-size instances, and forecast costs with surprising accuracy. Lu...

Episode 31 of Cloud Computing with Fexingo examines why AWS, Azure, and GCP are fundamentally redesigning their networking architectures in 2026. Lucas and Luna unpack the shift from traditional TCP/IP to custom protocols like SRv6 and AWS's 'Silk' initiative, exploring how this impacts latency, cost, and multi-cloud strategies. They use a specific case: how a fintech firm slashed data-transfer fe...

Episode 30 of Cloud Computing with Fexingo dives into resiliency engineering—the practice of deliberately breaking systems in production to build stronger infrastructure. Lucas and Luna explore how Netflix's Chaos Monkey evolved into a full-blown discipline adopted by AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud. They dissect the real story behind a 2023 incident at a major European bank that lost $150 million in...