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Cloud engineering
AWS guides on architecture, cost optimization, and operating responsibility. 3 guides, newest first.
About this topic
BluePi began as a cloud engineering firm in 2012 and built a substantial AWS practice before the data and AI work that defines it today. The guides in this section come from that period and remain in use.
They cover practical operating questions: automating Amazon EC2 image backup and retention safely, understanding which responsibilities stay with the customer under IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS, and comparing application frameworks. Each has been reviewed and updated so the advice reflects current service behavior.
Read them for what they still get right about operating on AWS, and for the habits of ownership and recovery planning that carried into BluePi’s later data platform and AI work. Where a service has changed since first publication, the guide says so and points to the current behavior.
Technical guides
Every guide in this topic, including the articles featured on the insights index.
Angular and Node.js: framework and runtime compared
Compare Angular and Node.js by architecture, execution environment, data flow, application role, deployment, and the cases where teams use them together.
Automating Amazon EC2 AMI retention: a current safety guide
Compare Amazon Data Lifecycle Manager with custom automation for EBS-backed AMIs, retention, copying, deletion, and recovery tests.
Cloud service models: identify the operating responsibility
Compare IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS by the operating responsibilities retained by the customer and handled by the provider.
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