# Thoughts & Stories: Cloud

> Sharing my experiences, learnings, and adventures in tech and beyond.

URL: https://www.matthewswong.com/en/blog/category/cloud/

- [State of FinOps 2026: What 98% Managing AI Spend Means](https://www.matthewswong.com/en/blog/state-of-finops-2026-ai-cost-management/)
- [OpenCost Inference Cost per Million Tokens for Self-Hosted vLLM](https://www.matthewswong.com/en/blog/opencost-inference-cost-per-million-tokens-vllm/)
- [AWS Lambda MicroVMs for AI Agent Sandboxes: Hooks and Limits](https://www.matthewswong.com/en/blog/aws-lambda-microvms-ai-agent-sandboxes/)
- [Gemini Cloud Assist Investigations: Proactive RCA and FinOps](https://www.matthewswong.com/en/blog/gemini-cloud-assist-proactive-agents-finops-rca/)
- [Amazon EKS MCP Server: SigV4, CloudTrail and Write-Mode Risks](https://www.matthewswong.com/en/blog/amazon-eks-mcp-server-managed-cloudtrail-write-mode/)
- [AWS MCP Server in Claude Code: OAuth, SigV4 and IAM Scoping](https://www.matthewswong.com/en/blog/aws-mcp-server-ga-call-aws-sigv4-proxy/)
- [Azure SRE Agent: Tool Permissions, Hooks and Approval Gates](https://www.matthewswong.com/en/blog/azure-sre-agent-tool-permissions-approval-hooks/)
- [AWS DevOps Agent: Incident Investigation, Cost and Accuracy](https://www.matthewswong.com/en/blog/aws-devops-agent-incident-investigation-guide/)
- [High Availability Design: Redundancy, Failover and the Nines](https://www.matthewswong.com/en/blog/high-availability-redundancy-failover-design/)
- [Service Mesh vs API Gateway: Differences and When to Use Each](https://www.matthewswong.com/en/blog/service-mesh-vs-api-gateway/)
- [Design a Video Streaming System: HLS, CDN and Adaptive Bitrate](https://www.matthewswong.com/en/blog/design-video-streaming-system-hls-cdn/)
- [How a CDN Works: What to Cache at the Edge and What Not To](https://www.matthewswong.com/en/blog/how-cdn-works-edge-caching-explained/)
- [Horizontal vs Vertical Scaling: Which to Pick First](https://www.matthewswong.com/en/blog/horizontal-vs-vertical-scaling/)
- [Cloudflare Containers: 6x Faster Starts for Agent Sandboxes](https://www.matthewswong.com/en/blog/cloudflare-containers-agent-sandboxes/)
- [Indonesia Sovereign AI Data Centres: What Actually Changes](https://www.matthewswong.com/en/blog/indonesia-sovereign-ai-data-centre-impact/)
- [Jakarta GPU Capacity: VRAM Sizing for Indonesian AI Teams](https://www.matthewswong.com/en/blog/jakarta-gpu-capacity-indonesian-ai-startups/)
- [Kubernetes HPA Autoscaling: Surviving a PaaS Traffic Spike](https://www.matthewswong.com/en/blog/helipod-hpa-autoscaling-traffic-spike/)
- [Helipod Review: Deploying Next.js on an Indonesian PaaS](https://www.matthewswong.com/en/blog/helipod-paas-indonesia-nextjs-deploy/)
- [Helipod vs Dokploy: Managed PaaS or Self-Hosted VPS](https://www.matthewswong.com/en/blog/helipod-vs-dokploy-managed-vs-self-hosted/)
- [Jakarta vs Singapore PaaS Latency for Indonesian Users](https://www.matthewswong.com/en/blog/jakarta-vs-singapore-paas-latency/)
- [PaaS vs VPS in Indonesia: An Honest IDR Cost Breakdown](https://www.matthewswong.com/en/blog/paas-vs-vps-cost-indonesia-idr/)
- [Claude Code on Bedrock, Google Cloud and Microsoft Foundry](https://www.matthewswong.com/en/blog/claude-code-bedrock-vertex-foundry-setup/)
- [Claude Code on the Web: Cloud Sessions and Teleport](https://www.matthewswong.com/en/blog/claude-code-on-the-web-cloud-sessions/)
- [Claude Code Behind an LLM Gateway: What Breaks and Why](https://www.matthewswong.com/en/blog/claude-code-llm-gateway-enterprise/)
- [Biznet Gio vs IDCloudHost: Indonesia Cloud VPS Compared](https://www.matthewswong.com/en/blog/biznet-gio-vs-idcloudhost-indonesia-cloud/)
- [Cheap VPS in Indonesia: A Practical Jakarta-Region Guide](https://www.matthewswong.com/en/blog/sewa-vps-murah-indonesia-panduan/)
- [SumoPod Review: Cheap Indonesian VPS for Self-Hosting](https://www.matthewswong.com/en/blog/sumopod-cheap-indonesian-vps-review/)
- [Cloudflare Workers vs Vercel Edge: Cold Starts, Pricing, Lock-In](https://www.matthewswong.com/en/blog/cloudflare-workers-vs-vercel-edge/)
- [Azure Indonesia Central Region: A Developer's Complete Deployment Guide](https://www.matthewswong.com/en/blog/azure-indonesia-central-region-deployment-guide/)

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