Category: Cloud Strategy

The Cloud Bill Always Comes Due: Hard Lessons in FinOps from a Decade of Enterprise Cloud Migrations

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The first time I saw a cloud bill exceed a million dollars in a single month, I knew something had fundamentally changed about how we needed to think about infrastructure. This wasn’t a massive enterprise with unlimited budgets—it was a mid-sized company that had enthusiastically embraced “cloud-first” without understanding what that commitment actually meant financially.… Continue reading

Generative AI in Healthcare: Revolutionizing Patient Care

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The first time I witnessed a generative AI system accurately synthesize a patient’s complex medical history into actionable clinical insights, I understood we were entering a new era of healthcare delivery. After two decades of architecting enterprise systems across industries, I can say that healthcare presents both the greatest challenges and the most profound opportunities… Continue reading

Difference between workload managed identity, Pod Managed Identity and AKS Managed Identity

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Azure Kubernetes Service(AKS) offers several options for managing identities within Kubernetes clusters, including AKS Managed Identity, Pod Managed Identity, and Workload Managed Identity. Here’s a comparison of these three options: Key Features AKS Managed Identity Pod Managed Identity Workload Managed Identity Overview A built-in feature of AKS that allows you to assign an Azure AD… Continue reading

How is AKS workload identity different from AKS pod managed identity?

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AKS workload identity and AKS pod managed identity both provide a way to manage access to Azure resources from within a Kubernetes cluster. However, there are some key differences between the two features. Scope AKS pod managed identity provides a managed identity for each individual pod within a Kubernetes cluster. This allows you to grant… Continue reading

Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) – Managed Identity

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Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) is a fully managed Kubernetes container orchestration service provided by Microsoft Azure. It allows users to quickly and easily deploy, manage, and scale containerized applications on Azure. AKS has been a popular choice among developers and DevOps teams for its ease of use and its ability to integrate with other Azure… Continue reading

Azure in Germany–a complete EU cloud computing solution

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With my earlier article Azure in China, it came in to my interest to look for any other country/region specific independent cloud data center requirements.  I came across Azure for US Govt(Similar to Amazon Govt Cloud) instance and Azure Germany data center.  For this article context I will be covering only Azure in Germany. What… Continue reading