Cloudflare vs AWS vs Vercel for Backend in 2026 — Where to Deploy
Picking a deploy target in 2026: Cloudflare for edge-first, AWS for full control, Vercel for Next.js shops. Pricing, lock-in, and decision matrix.
Picking a deploy target in 2026: Cloudflare for edge-first, AWS for full control, Vercel for Next.js shops. Pricing, lock-in, and decision matrix.
Tactics that produce real cloud savings: right-sizing, spot, savings plans, egress, idle cleanup, multi-cloud arbitrage, FinOps culture, and the diagnostic tools that find waste.
Picking an IaC tool in 2026. Pulumi (real programming languages), Terraform (HashiCorp’s BSL-licensed original), OpenTofu (open-source fork). Tradeoffs, ecosystem, state, and how to migrate.