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AWS m6i.xlarge and Azure D4s v5 both cost $0.2020/hour in India as of 17 August 2026. Compute parity is not where migration budgets fail. This guide prices the replication meters, egress tiers, licence cliffs
Manu Shukla 
Google Cloud Billing added an Originating products filter on 7 August 2026, so Gemini Enterprise spend no longer hides inside Vertex AI Search. The catch: the dimension is console-only, disables forecasting, and has not
Manu Shukla 
PostgreSQL 14 reaches end of life on 12 November 2026. AWS starts Extended Support billing on 1 March 2027, Azure and Google Cloud on 1 February 2027 - three providers, one upgrade plan.
Manu Shukla 
Gemini Enterprise now traces an agent call end to end, from the assistant prompt through the orchestration layer to the third-party API. Two new spans, a 30-day retention window and a $0.20 per million span meter decide
Manu Shukla 
Google announced the change on 31 July 2026 and switched it on the next day. Editing the allowed-projects list on a Cloud SQL instance now drops live database connections, there is no way to turn it off, and your estate
Manu Shukla 
Rapid Bucket is 5.5x the per-GiB price of standard Cloud Storage and bills for reads a same-region bucket serves free. On 50 TiB of checkpoints that is about $5,243 a month extra. Here is the arithmetic.
Manu Shukla 
On August 1, 2026, Google Cloud began billing Semantic Governance Policies on the Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform, charging evaluation-model tokens for every governed agent action. Here are the metered rates, a worked
Manu Shukla 
Google Cloud made Cloud Run cross-region failover GA in June 2026. Here is a production two-region setup, the gcloud commands, the real cost, and the data-tier caveat most teams miss.
Manu Shukla 
A cost breakdown of the Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform in 2026: the seat editions, the per-million token rates, and the July-to-September billing dates for Skills Registry, Agent Gateway, Memory Bank and Sessions that
Manu Shukla 
On 16 June 2026 Google Cloud changed the default CUD scope from Project to Billing account. Commitments bought by one team now discount usage in projects that never paid for them. Here is how to check your scope
Manu Shukla 
AWS Interconnect - multicloud reached GA on 14 April 2026 with Google Cloud as first launch partner. A 10 Gbps Tier 1 link costs $9,000.90 a month with no per-GB charges. Attach a Cloud WAN Core Network with a Singapore
Manu Shukla 
Cloud Run now fails over between regions automatically using readiness probes and serverless NEGs. Here is the working gcloud setup, plus the two defaults that silently break failover.
Manu Shukla 
At Google Cloud Next '26, Vertex AI became the Gemini Enterprise agent platform. With 96% of firms running AI agents but only 12% able to govern them, here is what it changes and how it compares to Microsoft and AWS.
Manu Shukla 
Gemini 3.5 Pro entered July 2026 still in limited preview, with no confirmed GA date, benchmarks or final pricing, after slipping from a June target. What enterprise teams evaluating it should do now.
Manu Shukla 
At WWDC 2026 Apple extended Private Cloud Compute to Google Cloud on Nvidia Blackwell GPUs. Here are five architecture decisions CTOs should take from Apple's private-AI design.
Manu Shukla 