In this episode of the CloudTweaks Podcast, host Steve Prentice speaks with Maxim Melamedov – CEO and Co-Founder of Zesty about why Kubernetes has become central to modern cloud, data, and AI workloads, and why it also introduces significant operational and financial challenges. The discussion breaks down how Kubernetes enables scale while increasing complexity around […]

Cloud adoption has matured rapidly over the last decade. Enterprises now operate complex, multi-account, multi-service cloud environments that support mission-critical workloads. While this scale delivers flexibility and speed, it also introduces a persistent challenge: controlling cloud costs without sacrificing performance or innovation. Traditional cloud optimization approaches, such as periodic audits, static rules, and manual cost […]

As organizations rush to harness the full potential of Generative AI (GenAI), they are recognizing that responsible experimentation at scale requires a controlled approach. This strategic necessity is driving the widespread adoption of cloud-based GenAI sandboxes, that provide an isolated environment for learning, prototyping, and testing of GenAI products, before moving to production. Because of […]

Sometimes we get so stuck in the weeds that we forget to apply normal common sense, especially to heady cybersecurity principles. Luckily, this one isn’t so heady: it’s just so obvious that we don’t see it anymore. We’re talking about alert fatigue, and why more companies don’t start there instead of levying hefty investments downstream […]

Happy New Year! I hope the holidays gave you time to recharge and spend time with your loved ones. Like every year, I took a few weeks off after AWS re:Invent to rest and plan ahead. I used some of that downtime to plan the next cohort for Become a Solutions Architect (BeSA). BeSA is […]

Active Directory, LDAP, and early PAM were built for humans. AI agents and machines were the exception. Today, they outnumber people 82 to 1, and that human-first identity model is breaking down at machine speed. AI agents are the fastest-growing and least-governed class of these machine identities — and they don’t just authenticate, they act. […]

You might think cybersecurity is just for tech teams. You would be wrong. As we head into 2026, cyber threats hit every part of business—and your personal life. This is about lost money, stolen secrets, and disrupted services. It’s about staying safe in a digital world where the barrier between “online” and “physical” has completely […]

Cloud workspaces have moved from “pilot” to “default” for many organizations, largely because the application stack has moved. Productivity suites, collaboration, line-of-business tools, and identity workflows increasingly live in the cloud, while desktop delivery is shifting from on-prem VDI to Desktop as a Service (DaaS). The market signals back this up. Gartner forecasts worldwide public cloud end-user […]

Real Large Action Models, or LAMs, are still in their infancy. Early examples like Google’s RT-2 or consumer devices such as Rabbit R1 exist, but consistent production-grade outcomes remain elusive. LAMs require enormous amounts of diverse training data covering environmental states, actions, and feedback loops. Gathering this data at scale is both expensive and technically […]

Photo by Annie Spratt on Unsplash As we head into the new year, I want to share an article by Andy Warfield called “A little bit uncomfortable”. Andy writes about something we don’t talk about enough–vulnerability and the relationship between fear and growth. His reflection on years of anxiety about public speaking gets at something […]