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The Cloud Business Podcast with Fexingo: AWS, Azure, GCP, and Enterprise Infrastructure
Every day, Lucas and Luna dissect the trillion-dollar business of cloud infrastructure — the physical data centers, the regional availability zones, the hyperscaler pricing wars, and the enterprise migrations that define modern IT. They track AWS, Azure, and GCP not as product releases but as business stories: how AWS's profit margins shape Amazon's overall earnings, why Azure's hybrid strategy wins regulated industries, and whether GCP's AI push can close the revenue gap. Lucas brings the…
Episodes
The Cloud Business Podcast with Fexingo: AWS, Azure, GCP, and Enterprise InfrastructureThe Hidden Cost of Cloud Region Replication
In this episode of The Cloud Business Podcast, Lucas and Luna dive into the often-overlooked line item on cloud bills: the cost of replicating data across…
- The Cloud Business Podcast with Fexingo: AWS, Azure, GCP, and Enterprise Infrastructure
How Cloud Bills Now Charge for Storage Tier Reclassifications
On this episode of The Cloud Business Podcast, Lucas and Luna dig into a quietly growing line item on enterprise cloud invoices: fees for moving data between…
- The Cloud Business Podcast with Fexingo: AWS, Azure, GCP, and Enterprise Infrastructure
Why Cloud Bills Now Meter Your SSD Write Endurance
Cloud providers are quietly adding a new line item to enterprise bills: metering SSD write endurance. In episode 166 of The Cloud Business Podcast, Lucas and…
- The Cloud Business Podcast with Fexingo: AWS, Azure, GCP, and Enterprise Infrastructure
Why Cloud Bills Now Charge for Cross-AZ Data Transfer
This week Lucas and Luna explore the quiet line item on every cloud invoice: cross-availability-zone data transfer fees. It's a charge many teams…
- The Cloud Business Podcast with Fexingo: AWS, Azure, GCP, and Enterprise Infrastructure
Why Cloud Bills Now Charge for Instance Scheduling
In this episode of The Cloud Business Podcast, Lucas and Luna drill into a line item that's quietly appearing on enterprise cloud invoices: instance…
- The Cloud Business Podcast with Fexingo: AWS, Azure, GCP, and Enterprise Infrastructure
How Cloud Bills Now Charge for Instance Scheduling
In this episode, Lucas and Luna drill into a quiet but creeping cloud cost: instance scheduling. They use the example of a mid-sized e-commerce platform that…
- The Cloud Business Podcast with Fexingo: AWS, Azure, GCP, and Enterprise Infrastructure
Inside the Banality of Cloud Outage Postmortems
When the cloud goes down, the postmortem is supposed to tell us why. But Lucas and Luna argue that most postmortems have become a ritual of corporate hedging…
- The Cloud Business Podcast with Fexingo: AWS, Azure, GCP, and Enterprise Infrastructure
Why Cloud Bills Now Meter Kubernetes Control Plane Requests
In this episode of The Cloud Business Podcast, Lucas and Luna unpack a billing shift that's quietly hitting every Kubernetes shop: cloud providers now…
- The Cloud Business Podcast with Fexingo: AWS, Azure, GCP, and Enterprise Infrastructure
How Cloud Bills Now Charge for Container Image Storage
In episode 160 of The Cloud Business Podcast, Lucas and Luna unpack the latest cloud billing shift: container image storage fees. They break down how the big…
- The Cloud Business Podcast with Fexingo: AWS, Azure, GCP, and Enterprise Infrastructure
Why Cloud Bills Now Charge for Internal Traffic Inspection
Cloud providers have started charging for east-west traffic inspection inside your VPC. Lucas and Luna break down how these new line items appear on invoices…
- The Cloud Business Podcast with Fexingo: AWS, Azure, GCP, and Enterprise Infrastructure
Why Cloud Bills Now Meter Your DNS Query Volumes
Episode 158 of The Cloud Business Podcast: Lucas and Luna unpack the latest cloud billing twist — metering DNS queries. They explain why providers started…
- The Cloud Business Podcast with Fexingo: AWS, Azure, GCP, and Enterprise Infrastructure
How Cloud Bills Now Meter Your Data Backup Storage
In this episode of The Cloud Business Podcast, Lucas and Luna zero in on a quiet but growing line item on enterprise cloud invoices: backup storage metering…
- The Cloud Business Podcast with Fexingo: AWS, Azure, GCP, and Enterprise Infrastructure
How Cloud Bills Now Meter Your AI Inference Tokens
In this episode of The Cloud Business Podcast, Lucas and Luna dive into the newest line item appearing on enterprise cloud invoices: per-token charges for AI…
- The Cloud Business Podcast with Fexingo: AWS, Azure, GCP, and Enterprise Infrastructure
How Cloud Bills Now Charge for Container Image Signing
In this episode, Lucas and Luna dive into the newest line item appearing on enterprise cloud invoices: container image signing. After years of free…
- The Cloud Business Podcast with Fexingo: AWS, Azure, GCP, and Enterprise Infrastructure
How Cloud Bills Now Meter Your GPU Memory
Cloud providers have quietly added a new line item to enterprise invoices: charges based on GPU memory reservation, not just compute time. In this episode…
- The Cloud Business Podcast with Fexingo: AWS, Azure, GCP, and Enterprise Infrastructure
How Cloud Bills Now Meter Your Container Image Pulls
Container image pulls used to be free on most clouds — now they're a line item. In this episode, Lucas and Luna unpack a surprising new charge appearing…
- The Cloud Business Podcast with Fexingo: AWS, Azure, GCP, and Enterprise Infrastructure
Why Cloud Bills Now Charge for Data Replication Checksums
In this episode of The Cloud Business Podcast, Lucas and Luna dig into a line item that's quietly showing up on enterprise cloud invoices: checksum…
- The Cloud Business Podcast with Fexingo: AWS, Azure, GCP, and Enterprise Infrastructure
Why Cloud Bills Now Include Defragmentation Write Fees
In this episode of The Cloud Business Podcast, Lucas and Luna dig into a fresh line item that's appearing on enterprise cloud invoices: defragmentation…
- The Cloud Business Podcast with Fexingo: AWS, Azure, GCP, and Enterprise Infrastructure
How Cloud Invoice Audits Reveal Hidden AI Costs
In this milestone episode, Lucas and Luna dive into the growing challenge of auditing cloud invoices for AI-related costs. With AI services now generating a…
- The Cloud Business Podcast with Fexingo: AWS, Azure, GCP, and Enterprise Infrastructure
How Cloud Bills Now Charge for DNS Query Volumes
Episode 149 of The Cloud Business Podcast digs into a quietly expanding line item on cloud invoices: DNS query charges. Lucas and Luna explore how major…
- The Cloud Business Podcast with Fexingo: AWS, Azure, GCP, and Enterprise Infrastructure
Why Cloud Bills Now Charge for Egress to On-Prem
In this episode, Lucas and Luna dig into a line item that's quietly appearing on more enterprise cloud invoices: data egress charges for traffic moving…
- The Cloud Business Podcast with Fexingo: AWS, Azure, GCP, and Enterprise Infrastructure
Why Cloud Bills Now Charge for Git Commit Hooks
In Episode 147 of The Cloud Business Podcast, Lucas and Luna unpack a new line item creeping into enterprise cloud invoices: git commit hook execution. As…
- The Cloud Business Podcast with Fexingo: AWS, Azure, GCP, and Enterprise Infrastructure
Data Egress Fees Are the New Cloud Tax
This week Lucas and Luna dig into one of the quietest line items on cloud bills: data egress. Why do AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud all charge to move data out…
- The Cloud Business Podcast with Fexingo: AWS, Azure, GCP, and Enterprise Infrastructure
How Cloud Bills Now Meter Your Firewall Rule Evaluations
Episode 145 of The Cloud Business Podcast drills into a fresh line-item creeping onto enterprise cloud invoices: firewall rule evaluations. Lucas and Luna…
- The Cloud Business Podcast with Fexingo: AWS, Azure, GCP, and Enterprise Infrastructure
Why Cloud Contracts Now Bill for NAT Gateway Processing
In this episode of The Cloud Business Podcast, Lucas and Luna break down a quiet but significant shift in cloud pricing: the arrival of per-GB processing fees…
- The Cloud Business Podcast with Fexingo: AWS, Azure, GCP, and Enterprise Infrastructure
How Cloud Bills Now Meter Your Load Balancer Request Paths
Cloud providers have spent the last few years moving from simple per-GB and per-hour pricing to granular metering of every API call and control-plane action…
- The Cloud Business Podcast with Fexingo: AWS, Azure, GCP, and Enterprise Infrastructure
Why Cloud Providers Bill for Storage Event Notifications
If you use object storage from AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud and have configured event notifications to trigger downstream workflows, you may have noticed a new…
- The Cloud Business Podcast with Fexingo: AWS, Azure, GCP, and Enterprise Infrastructure
Why Cloud Contracts Now Charge for Managed Prometheus Active Series
AWS recently updated pricing for Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus, introducing a per-hour charge for active metric series beyond the free tier. This…
- The Cloud Business Podcast with Fexingo: AWS, Azure, GCP, and Enterprise Infrastructure
Why Cloud Contracts Now Charge for Security Finding Ingestion
In this episode of The Cloud Business Podcast, Lucas and Luna break down a growing cloud cost that many operators miss: Security Hub finding ingestion fees…
- The Cloud Business Podcast with Fexingo: AWS, Azure, GCP, and Enterprise Infrastructure
Why Cloud Vendors Now Charge for AWS Config Rule Evaluations
In Episode 139 of The Cloud Business Podcast, Lucas and Luna unpack a growing cost center for enterprise cloud teams: AWS Config rule evaluations. Starting…
- The Cloud Business Podcast with Fexingo: AWS, Azure, GCP, and Enterprise Infrastructure
Why Cloud Vendors Now Charge for Inter-AZ Data Transfer
Episode 138 of The Cloud Business Podcast explains how major cloud providers now meter and charge for data transferred between availability zones within the…
- The Cloud Business Podcast with Fexingo: AWS, Azure, GCP, and Enterprise Infrastructure
Why Cloud Contracts Now Charge for CloudFront Origin Shield Requests
Amazon CloudFront's Origin Shield is a caching layer designed to reduce load on your origin servers. But as of recent contract renegotiations, AWS now…
- The Cloud Business Podcast with Fexingo: AWS, Azure, GCP, and Enterprise Infrastructure
Why Cloud Contracts Now Charge for IAM Role Assumption Events
Cloud providers are now billing for each instance where an IAM role is assumed, a previously free action. This episode breaks down why identity operations are…
- The Cloud Business Podcast with Fexingo: AWS, Azure, GCP, and Enterprise Infrastructure
Why Cloud Contracts Now Charge for Storage Lifecycle Transitions
Cloud lifecycle policies were designed to save money by moving data to cheaper storage tiers automatically. But now AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud have…
- The Cloud Business Podcast with Fexingo: AWS, Azure, GCP, and Enterprise Infrastructure
Why Cloud Contracts Now Charge for Idle Database Connections
Lucas and Luna break down a new cloud billing trend: metering database connection hours. Using a real-world example of a SaaS company that saw a 12% cost jump…
- The Cloud Business Podcast with Fexingo: AWS, Azure, GCP, and Enterprise Infrastructure
Why Cloud Contracts Now Charge for AI Training Job Interruption Costs
Episode 133 of The Cloud Business Podcast dives into a new cloud billing line item: fees for interrupted AI training jobs on spot GPU instances. Lucas and Luna…
- The Cloud Business Podcast with Fexingo: AWS, Azure, GCP, and Enterprise Infrastructure
Why Cloud Contracts Now Charge for Container Registry Pulls
In this episode, Lucas and Luna break down the new container registry image pull charges hitting enterprise cloud bills. They explore how a mid-sized SaaS…
- The Cloud Business Podcast with Fexingo: AWS, Azure, GCP, and Enterprise Infrastructure
Why Cloud Contracts Now Bill for VPC Flow Logs
Episode 131 of The Cloud Business Podcast: Lucas and Luna break down the newest hidden cost in enterprise cloud bills — VPC flow log egress. Starting with a…
- The Cloud Business Podcast with Fexingo: AWS, Azure, GCP, and Enterprise Infrastructure
Why Cloud Contracts Now Meter Your Backup Snapshot Storage
Your cloud backup costs are creeping up not because you're backing up more data, but because providers have quietly started metering snapshot storage…
- The Cloud Business Podcast with Fexingo: AWS, Azure, GCP, and Enterprise Infrastructure
Cloud Contracts Now Meter Your Service Mesh Sidecar CPU
Episode 129 drills into the newest cloud billing frontier: service mesh sidecar proxy CPU usage. AWS App Mesh, Istio, and Linkerd sidecars now appear as…
- The Cloud Business Podcast with Fexingo: AWS, Azure, GCP, and Enterprise Infrastructure
Why Cloud Contracts Now Charge for Container Registry Storage Scans
Lucas and Luna dig into a quietly spreading cloud billing change: container registry storage scanning fees. AWS, Azure, and GCP have all started metering the…
- The Cloud Business Podcast with Fexingo: AWS, Azure, GCP, and Enterprise Infrastructure
How Cloud Contracts Now Charge for Instance Metadata API Calls
Episode 127 dives into a rapidly growing line item in enterprise cloud bills: charges for every call to the instance metadata service. Lucas and Luna break…
- The Cloud Business Podcast with Fexingo: AWS, Azure, GCP, and Enterprise Infrastructure
Cloud Contracts Now Charge for Control Plane API Call Volume
Cloud providers are adding a new cost line item: per-API-call pricing for the control plane itself. In this episode, Lucas and Luna break down why AWS, Azure…
- The Cloud Business Podcast with Fexingo: AWS, Azure, GCP, and Enterprise Infrastructure
Cloud Contracts Now Charge for Kubernetes Node Pool Autoscaling Events
Episode 125 of The Cloud Business Podcast digs into a new line item appearing on enterprise cloud bills: fees for every Kubernetes node pool scale-up event…
- The Cloud Business Podcast with Fexingo: AWS, Azure, GCP, and Enterprise Infrastructure
Cloud Contracts Now Charge for Terraform State File Locking
Episode 124 of The Cloud Business Podcast dives into the newest cloud contract gotcha: Terraform state file locking fees. Lucas and Luna break down how AWS…
- The Cloud Business Podcast with Fexingo: AWS, Azure, GCP, and Enterprise Infrastructure
Cloud Contracts Now Meter Your IaC Drift Detection Runs
Episode 123 of The Cloud Business Podcast takes a deep dive into a quiet but costly change in cloud contracts: metering for Infrastructure as Code drift…
- The Cloud Business Podcast with Fexingo: AWS, Azure, GCP, and Enterprise Infrastructure
How Cloud Contracts Now Charge for Terraform Plan Caching
In this episode of The Cloud Business Podcast, Lucas and Luna dig into a quietly controversial line item that's appearing in new cloud provider enterprise…
- The Cloud Business Podcast with Fexingo: AWS, Azure, GCP, and Enterprise Infrastructure
Cloud Contracts Now Meter Your Terraform State File Reads
Episode 121 of The Cloud Business Podcast breaks down the latest billing change from the big three cloud providers: metering Terraform state file reads. Lucas…
- The Cloud Business Podcast with Fexingo: AWS, Azure, GCP, and Enterprise Infrastructure
How Cloud Contracts Now Meter Your Terraform Plan Runs
Episode 120 of The Cloud Business Podcast. Lucas and Luna break down a quiet shift in cloud billing: charges for Terraform plan runs. AWS now bills for plan…
- The Cloud Business Podcast with Fexingo: AWS, Azure, GCP, and Enterprise Infrastructure
Why Cloud Contracts Now Meter Your DevOps Pipeline Minutes
Episode 119 of The Cloud Business Podcast. Lucas and Luna break down the latest shift in hyperscaler pricing: metering and billing for CI/CD pipeline execution…
- The Cloud Business Podcast with Fexingo: AWS, Azure, GCP, and Enterprise Infrastructure
Cloud Contracts Now Charge for Internal DNS Query Volume
Episode 118 of The Cloud Business Podcast: AWS, Azure, GCP, and Enterprise Infrastructure. Lucas and Luna break down how hyperscalers are quietly adding…
- The Cloud Business Podcast with Fexingo: AWS, Azure, GCP, and Enterprise Infrastructure
Cloud Contracts Now Charge for Kubernetes Pod Eviction Costs
Episode 117 of The Cloud Business Podcast. Lucas and Luna dig into the latest fine print coming out of AWS, Azure, and GCP: charges triggered when a Kubernetes…
- The Cloud Business Podcast with Fexingo: AWS, Azure, GCP, and Enterprise Infrastructure
Cloud Contracts Now Charge for Serverless Cold Start Penalties
Episode 116 of The Cloud Business Podcast examines a new pricing line appearing in AWS, Azure, and GCP contracts: cold start penalties for serverless…
- The Cloud Business Podcast with Fexingo: AWS, Azure, GCP, and Enterprise Infrastructure
Cloud Contracts Now Charge for Multi-Cloud Egress Routing
Lucas and Luna dive into a new cloud contract trend: providers are now charging for egress routing decisions when traffic leaves one cloud and crosses another…
- The Cloud Business Podcast with Fexingo: AWS, Azure, GCP, and Enterprise Infrastructure
How Cloud Contracts Now Charge for DNS to On-Prem Failover Testing
Episode 114 of The Cloud Business Podcast digs into a fresh billing frontier: cloud providers now charging per DNS-to-on-premises failover test. Lucas and Luna…
- The Cloud Business Podcast with Fexingo: AWS, Azure, GCP, and Enterprise Infrastructure
How Cloud Contracts Now Charge for Data Egress to On-Premises
In this episode of The Cloud Business Podcast, Lucas and Luna explore a growing trend in cloud contracts: fees for moving data from the cloud back to…
- The Cloud Business Podcast with Fexingo: AWS, Azure, GCP, and Enterprise Infrastructure
How Cloud Contracts Now Charge for Inter-Region Data Replication
Episode 112 of The Cloud Business Podcast digs into a quiet but costly change in cloud contracts: inter-region data replication fees. Lucas and Luna break down…
- The Cloud Business Podcast with Fexingo: AWS, Azure, GCP, and Enterprise Infrastructure
How Cloud Contracts Now Charge for Container Image Vulnerability Scans
Episode 111 of The Cloud Business Podcast with Fexingo dives into a quiet but costly trend: cloud providers are now billing per container image vulnerability…
- The Cloud Business Podcast with Fexingo: AWS, Azure, GCP, and Enterprise Infrastructure
How Cloud Contracts Now Bundle CDN Egress with Storage
Episode 110 of The Cloud Business Podcast: Lucas and Luna unpack the latest shift in cloud provider pricing — bundling content delivery network egress fees…
- The Cloud Business Podcast with Fexingo: AWS, Azure, GCP, and Enterprise Infrastructure
How Cloud Contracts Now Charge for DNS Response Latency
Episode 109 of The Cloud Business Podcast: Lucas and Luna unpack the latest shift in cloud infrastructure pricing — DNS response latency SLAs and charges. They…