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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 InfrastructureCloud Contracts Now Impose Carbon Usage Penalties
Episode 48 of The Cloud Business Podcast digs into a new clause showing up in enterprise cloud agreements: carbon usage penalties. Lucas and Luna examine how…
The Cloud Business Podcast with Fexingo: AWS, Azure, GCP, and Enterprise InfrastructureHow Cloud Contracts Now Include AI Workload Migration Credits
Episode 47 of The Cloud Business Podcast with Fexingo dives into a new clause appearing in enterprise cloud contracts: AI workload migration credits. Lucas…
The Cloud Business Podcast with Fexingo: AWS, Azure, GCP, and Enterprise InfrastructureWhy Cloud Contracts Now Penalize Idle Reserved Instances
Episode 46 of The Cloud Business Podcast dives into a quiet but costly shift in enterprise cloud deals: idle-instance penalties. Lucas and Luna explain how…
The Cloud Business Podcast with Fexingo: AWS, Azure, GCP, and Enterprise InfrastructureWhy Cloud Architects Now Redesign for Co-Location
In this episode, Lucas and Luna explore why enterprises are physically co-locating their on-premises gear inside cloud provider data centers. We break down the…
The Cloud Business Podcast with Fexingo: AWS, Azure, GCP, and Enterprise InfrastructureHow Cloud Contracts Are Rewriting Disaster Recovery
Lucas and Luna dig into a quiet but massive shift in enterprise cloud: disaster recovery clauses are no longer just about uptime percentages. They trace how a…
The Cloud Business Podcast with Fexingo: AWS, Azure, GCP, and Enterprise InfrastructureCloud Region Data Residency Realities in 2026
As cloud regions proliferate, data residency laws are fragmenting enterprise cloud strategy. Lucas and Luna examine how a global manufacturer navigated…
The Cloud Business Podcast with Fexingo: AWS, Azure, GCP, and Enterprise InfrastructureWhy Cloud Contracts Now Include Reserved Compute Swaps
Episode 42 of The Cloud Business Podcast. Lucas and Luna dive into a fast-growing clause in enterprise cloud contracts: the reserved-instance swap right. Using…
The Cloud Business Podcast with Fexingo: AWS, Azure, GCP, and Enterprise InfrastructureWhy Enterprise Cloud Contracts Now Include Spot Instance Guarantees
Episode 41 digs into a new clause appearing in enterprise cloud contracts: spot instance guarantees. Lucas and Luna explain how AWS, Azure, and GCP are now…
The Cloud Business Podcast with Fexingo: AWS, Azure, GCP, and Enterprise InfrastructureWhy Enterprise Cloud Contracts Now Guarantee Data Portability
Episode 40 of The Cloud Business Podcast digs into the quiet revolution in enterprise cloud contracting: data portability guarantees. Lucas and Luna unpack why…
The Cloud Business Podcast with Fexingo: AWS, Azure, GCP, and Enterprise InfrastructureWhy Cloud Contracts Now Bundle Networking and Compute
In this episode of The Cloud Business Podcast, Lucas and Luna explore the emerging trend of bundled cloud contracts that combine networking and compute into a…
The Cloud Business Podcast with Fexingo: AWS, Azure, GCP, and Enterprise InfrastructureHow Cloud Regions Are Auctioning Compute to Fill Gaps
Episode 38 of The Cloud Business Podcast. Lucas and Luna explore how cloud providers are increasingly auctioning off unused compute capacity through spot and…
The Cloud Business Podcast with Fexingo: AWS, Azure, GCP, and Enterprise InfrastructureHow Cloud Regions Are Bidding for Enterprise Data Residency
Episode 37 of The Cloud Business Podcast with Fexingo. Lucas and Luna examine how cloud providers are competing for enterprise workloads by offering data…
The Cloud Business Podcast with Fexingo: AWS, Azure, GCP, and Enterprise InfrastructureHow Cloud Regions Are Auctioning Compute to Fill Gaps
Cloud providers are increasingly using auction-based pricing for spare compute capacity — think AWS Spot Instances on steroids, but now for GPUs and reserved…
The Cloud Business Podcast with Fexingo: AWS, Azure, GCP, and Enterprise InfrastructureWhy Enterprise Cloud Contracts Now Have GPU Resale Clauses
Episode 35 of The Cloud Business Podcast dives into a new clause appearing in enterprise cloud contracts: the GPU resale right. Lucas and Luna explore why…
The Cloud Business Podcast with Fexingo: AWS, Azure, GCP, and Enterprise InfrastructureHow Cloud Regions Are Competing for Enterprise AI Workloads
In this episode of The Cloud Business Podcast, Lucas and Luna explore how major cloud providers are shifting their geographic expansion strategies to compete…
The Cloud Business Podcast with Fexingo: AWS, Azure, GCP, and Enterprise InfrastructureWhy Cloud Costs Surge When Data Gets Hot
Lucas and Luna dig into a cost trap most enterprises overlook: the data temperature problem. Lucas explains how storage tiers — hot, cool, cold, and archive —…
The Cloud Business Podcast with Fexingo: AWS, Azure, GCP, and Enterprise InfrastructureWhy Enterprise Cloud Contracts Now Include Data Egress Credits
In this episode, Lucas and Luna examine the emerging trend of data egress credits in enterprise cloud contracts. They break down why major cloud providers like…
The Cloud Business Podcast with Fexingo: AWS, Azure, GCP, and Enterprise InfrastructureHow Cloud Regions Are Competing on Latency Not Just Price
In this episode of The Cloud Business Podcast, Lucas and Luna explore how cloud providers are shifting their competitive strategy from pure price wars to…
The Cloud Business Podcast with Fexingo: AWS, Azure, GCP, and Enterprise InfrastructureWhy Enterprise Cloud Contracts Now Lock in GPU Access
Episode 30 of The Cloud Business Podcast digs into the newest trend in enterprise cloud deals: GPU access guarantees. Lucas and Luna break down why…
The Cloud Business Podcast with Fexingo: AWS, Azure, GCP, and Enterprise InfrastructureThe Cloud Data Egress Tax Nobody Is Talking About
Data egress fees are the hidden tax that inflates enterprise cloud bills by 20-50 percent. Lucas and Luna break down how a mid-size SaaS company discovered…
The Cloud Business Podcast with Fexingo: AWS, Azure, GCP, and Enterprise InfrastructureThe Cloud SLA Audit That Could Save Your Enterprise Millions
Most enterprises sign cloud service-level agreements without ever testing whether the provider actually delivers on the uptime credits they promise. This…
The Cloud Business Podcast with Fexingo: AWS, Azure, GCP, and Enterprise InfrastructureThe Cloud Capacity Auction Enterprises Are Winning
Episode 27 of The Cloud Business Podcast explores the emerging practice of enterprises bidding on cloud capacity through spot and reserved-instance auctions…
The Cloud Business Podcast with Fexingo: AWS, Azure, GCP, and Enterprise InfrastructureThe Cloud Broker Role That Enterprises Need Now
Episode 26 of The Cloud Business Podcast. Lucas and Luna unpack the rise of the cloud broker—a new intermediary role helping enterprises navigate multi-cloud…
The Cloud Business Podcast with Fexingo: AWS, Azure, GCP, and Enterprise InfrastructureThe Cloud Carbon Accounting Debacle Enterprises Face
Episode 25 of The Cloud Business Podcast. Lucas and Luna examine the messy reality of cloud carbon accounting — why AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud all calculate…
The Cloud Business Podcast with Fexingo: AWS, Azure, GCP, and Enterprise InfrastructureThe Hidden Costs of Cloud Lock-In for Enterprise AI
In this episode of The Cloud Business Podcast, Lucas and Luna unpack the often-overlooked contractual lock-in mechanisms that cloud providers use to keep…
The Cloud Business Podcast with Fexingo: AWS, Azure, GCP, and Enterprise InfrastructureWhy Cloud Bills Spike When Data Egress Goes Unchecked
Episode 23 of The Cloud Business Podcast digs into a hidden cost that catches many enterprises off guard: data egress fees. Lucas and Luna break down how a…
The Cloud Business Podcast with Fexingo: AWS, Azure, GCP, and Enterprise InfrastructureWhy Cloud Contracts Now Have GPU Idle Penalty Clauses
In this episode, Lucas and Luna dive into a quiet but significant shift in enterprise cloud contracts: GPU idle penalty clauses. Major cloud providers — AWS…
The Cloud Business Podcast with Fexingo: AWS, Azure, GCP, and Enterprise InfrastructureGoogle Cloud Runs on Its Own Network and How That Changes the Math
Lucas and Luna break down one of the most underappreciated advantages in cloud infrastructure: Google Cloud's private fiber network. Most traffic between…
The Cloud Business Podcast with Fexingo: AWS, Azure, GCP, and Enterprise InfrastructureWhy Cloud Bills Surge When GPUs Go Idle
Lucas and Luna dig into the hidden cost eating enterprise cloud budgets: idle GPU compute. With AI workloads surging, companies are reserving NVIDIA H100 and…
The Cloud Business Podcast with Fexingo: AWS, Azure, GCP, and Enterprise InfrastructureThe Cloud Security Wake-Up Call Enterprises Cant Ignore
In this episode of The Cloud Business Podcast, Lucas and Luna examine a startling trend: cloud misconfiguration incidents have surged 42 percent…
The Cloud Business Podcast with Fexingo: AWS, Azure, GCP, and Enterprise InfrastructureThe Cloud Region Capacity Crunch Enterprises Are Hitting
In this episode of The Cloud Business Podcast, Lucas and Luna explore the growing challenge of cloud region capacity constraints. As demand for AI and GPU…
The Cloud Business Podcast with Fexingo: AWS, Azure, GCP, and Enterprise InfrastructureThe Cloud Repatriation Myth That Enterprise IT Keeps Getting Wrong
Episode 17 of The Cloud Business Podcast tackles the cloud repatriation narrative head-on. Lucas and Luna dig into a recent survey of 500 enterprise IT leaders…
The Cloud Business Podcast with Fexingo: AWS, Azure, GCP, and Enterprise InfrastructureWhy Cloud Contracts Now Include AI Inference Guarantees
Episode 16 of The Cloud Business Podcast: Lucas and Luna unpack a quiet revolution in enterprise cloud contracting — AI inference performance guarantees. They…
The Cloud Business Podcast with Fexingo: AWS, Azure, GCP, and Enterprise InfrastructureThe AWS Reserved Instance Trap Enterprise Buyers Face
In this episode, Lucas and Luna dissect the hidden complexity of AWS Reserved Instances — a savings strategy that three out of five enterprises get wrong. They…
The Cloud Business Podcast with Fexingo: AWS, Azure, GCP, and Enterprise InfrastructureWhy Cloud-Native Startups Are Going Back to Simpler Infrastructure
Episode 14 of The Cloud Business Podcast. Lucas and Luna examine a surprising trend among cloud-native startups: after years of layering on Kubernetes, service…
The Cloud Business Podcast with Fexingo: AWS, Azure, GCP, and Enterprise InfrastructureWhy Cloud Exit Is Actually Possible Now
For years, the conventional wisdom has been that once you move to the cloud, you can never leave—the data egress fees, the architectural coupling, the…
The Cloud Business Podcast with Fexingo: AWS, Azure, GCP, and Enterprise InfrastructureThe Cloud Cost Optimization That Actually Works
Episode 12 of The Cloud Business Podcast digs into the one cost optimization strategy that actually moves the needle for enterprises: rightsizing instance…
The Cloud Business Podcast with Fexingo: AWS, Azure, GCP, and Enterprise InfrastructureThe True Cost of Cloud AI Inference Lock-in
Lucas and Luna explore the hidden costs of running large language model inference on a single cloud. They break down a real enterprise case where a company…
The Cloud Business Podcast with Fexingo: AWS, Azure, GCP, and Enterprise InfrastructureWhy Cloud Outages Hit Harder in a Multi-Cloud World
In this episode, Lucas and Luna explore the uncomfortable reality of cloud outages in a multi-cloud era. Using the February 2026 AWS Sydney region outage as a…
The Cloud Business Podcast with Fexingo: AWS, Azure, GCP, and Enterprise InfrastructureThe Unspoken Cost of Cloud Egress Fees
Episode 9 of The Cloud Business Podcast digs into cloud egress fees—the charges for moving data out of AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud. Lucas and Luna explore how…
The Cloud Business Podcast with Fexingo: AWS, Azure, GCP, and Enterprise InfrastructureThe Price Cap That Failed AWS Azure and Google Cloud
Episode 8 of The Cloud Business Podcast digs into one of the most misunderstood dynamics in enterprise cloud: the 34 percent premium that AWS, Azure, and…
The Cloud Business Podcast with Fexingo: AWS, Azure, GCP, and Enterprise InfrastructureThe CLOUD BRIDGE: How Enterprises Are Migrating Data for AI Workloads
In this episode of The Cloud Business Podcast, Lucas and Luna explore the emerging trend of 'data gravity' and how enterprises are moving massive…
The Cloud Business Podcast with Fexingo: AWS, Azure, GCP, and Enterprise InfrastructureWhy AWS and Azure Are Racing to Offer Custom Silicon to Enterprise Clients
Episode 6 of The Cloud Business Podcast looks at the accelerating shift from general-purpose CPUs to custom-designed chips in the cloud. Lucas explains why…
The Cloud Business Podcast with Fexingo: AWS, Azure, GCP, and Enterprise InfrastructureThe Kubernetes Bill Shock Why Managed Kubernetes Changes the Math
Lucas and Luna dive into a specific cost trap that enterprises hit when moving to Kubernetes: the managed Kubernetes premium. Using a midsize retail-tech…
The Cloud Business Podcast with Fexingo: AWS, Azure, GCP, and Enterprise InfrastructureThe Carbon Cost of Cloud: Microsoft and Google's Cooling Water Problem
In this episode of The Cloud Business Podcast, Lucas and Luna dive into a specific environmental challenge facing the three major cloud providers: water…
The Cloud Business Podcast with Fexingo: AWS, Azure, GCP, and Enterprise InfrastructureThe Edge Computing Reality Check for Enterprise Cloud
In this episode, Lucas and Luna dive into the messy reality of edge computing adoption for large enterprises. While cloud providers like AWS, Microsoft, and…
The Cloud Business Podcast with Fexingo: AWS, Azure, GCP, and Enterprise InfrastructureThe Multi-Cloud Tax and How Enterprises Actually Manage It
Episode 2 of The Cloud Business Podcast with Fexingo tackles the real cost of multi-cloud strategy. Lucas and Luna drill into a 2025 survey from HashiCorp…
The Cloud Business Podcast with Fexingo: AWS, Azure, GCP, and Enterprise InfrastructureHow AWS Became the Default Infrastructure Layer
In the premiere episode of The Cloud Business Podcast, Lucas and Luna unpack a single number that captures the last decade of enterprise infrastructure…