Cloud infrastructure, translated for UK teams
Most UK teams have a disaster recovery plan. Far fewer have sat in a room and walked it through with the people who will actually make the calls when a cloud service falls over. This is a practical, low-drama tabletop exercise for finding the gaps before they find you.
A Cyber Essentials or ISO 27001 logo in a cloud sales deck tells you something real — just not what most UK buyers assume. Here's how to read the scope line, ask sharper questions before renewal, and get the shared-responsibility split in writing.
‘24/7 support’ can still mean a ticket queue that goes quiet until Monday. This UK buyer’s checklist explains severity definitions, response times, escalation rights and the questions to ask before signing a cloud support plan.
Your on-call rota is a more honest resilience test than any architecture diagram. This practical audit looks at who gets paged, whether they can actually act, and how UK working patterns affect incident response outside office hours.
Most UK cloud breaches do not start with a hooded hacker. They start with an account nobody switched off. This is a plain-English walk through admin rights, break-glass accounts, leavers and the evidence your auditor or insurer will want to see.
When your checkout is failing and the provider's status page says "degraded performance", someone is being economical with the truth. Here is how UK teams can decode incident updates, understand what SLA credits really cover, and ask better questions after the next outage.
A UK region is a useful starting point, not a guarantee. Here’s how to check where your cloud data, backups and support engineers really sit—and what regulated UK teams should ask before signing off.
AI features look cheap in a pilot and expensive in production. Before your UK team scales, ask vendors these questions about GPU capacity, egress, storage and governance.
Cloud vendors love a tidy noun phrase. Your finance, ops and leadership teams need to know what those nouns cost, where they live and who fixes them when they break. This is a plain-English glossary for UK buyers, with Bristol and Manchester scenarios to show where vague language hides real risk.
Renewal season is when friendly cloud contracts get serious. These are the ten clauses UK teams should read slowly, question properly and, in some cases, refuse. It is a practical checklist for finance, ops and procurement teams who want flexibility after signature day.
Energy prices, grid connection queues and packed-out data centres are now the biggest invisible force shaping what British teams pay for cloud. Here's how wholesale power economics ends up on your invoice - and what procurement can realistically do about it in 2026.
Repatriation is being sold as the sensible, sovereign, cost-saving answer to everything. It isn't - but it isn't nonsense either. An opinionated, practical framework for UK teams deciding what comes home, what stays put, and how to avoid the regret.