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Posts from HabileLabs on planning a move to AWS or Azure, running cloud environments after go-live, preparing for outages and keeping your monthly cloud bill down.

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Six posts to read first on moving to and running in the cloud

Our pick from the archive, in the order a cloud program runs: assess, migrate, operate, recover, optimize. Three of them are filed under AWS, Azure or Banking & Financial Services, so the Cloud Solutions list below does not show them.

  • 01

    The Role of Assessment in a Confident Cloud Strategy

    How an assessment shapes a cloud strategy around performance, security and your business goals.

    Anjali Jain · 15 January 2026

    • Cloud Solutions
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  • 02

    Azure Migration Services Explained: The Complete Toolkit

    Microsoft's Azure migration tools explained, and how to pick the right one for each workload.

    Dishank Sharma · 27 October 2026

    • Azure
    Read the post

  • 03

    Why SMEs Should Consider Managed Cloud Services: Top 5 Key Benefits

    The top five benefits of managed cloud services for smaller businesses, from productivity to security and scalability.

    Anjali Jain · 14 May 2025

    • Cloud Solutions
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  • 04

    The Power of AWS Managed Services: A Comprehensive Guide

    What AWS Managed Services covers, and its key benefits for running your AWS environment day to day.

    Jayshree Mathur · 25 November 2024

    • AWS
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  • 05

    Downtime is Business Failure: Assessing DR Architecture for True BFSI Resilience

    How to assess a disaster recovery architecture in banking and finance, and the strategies that keep downtime from becoming costly.

    Anjali Jain · 19 February 2026

    • Banking & Financial Services
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  • 06

    Cloud Cost Optimization Explained: 10 Techniques to Reduce Your Monthly Cloud Costs

    Ten techniques to bring your monthly cloud bill down.

    Anjali Jain · 19 June 2025

    • Cloud Solutions
    Read the post

For engineers: Which IaC Tool to Choose in 2025? Terraform vs Pulumi vs Cloud-Native Solutions · Beginner's Guide to Serverless Architecture · The Hidden Benefits of Using AWS ECS for Scalable Applications · Introduction to AWS Security Measures for First Timers. By cloud: AWS blog · Microsoft blog

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Every post filed under Cloud Solutions, newest first. Search, or switch topic to AWS or Azure for posts about one cloud.

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Beginner's Guide to Serverless Architecture

Serverless architecture has transformed development. This guide breaks down what serverless is and highlights the key benefits it brings to modern applications.

Supriya Tainwala

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  • Cloud migration

    Applications, databases and data centers moved in planned waves, each workload assessed first.

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    • Microsoft Azure
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  • Managed cloud services

    The day-to-day running of your cloud on AWS or Azure: monitoring, incident response, patching, backups, security and cost control.

    • Monitoring
    • Patching
    • Backups
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  • Cloud security and disaster recovery

    AWS WAF, identity, encryption and tested recovery plans for workloads that regulators and customers depend on.

    • AWS WAF
    • Identity
    • Recovery plans
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  • Cloud cost optimization

    Find idle and oversized resources, rightsize them, and use Graviton, Savings Plans and Reserved Instances where usage is steady.

    • Rightsizing
    • Savings Plans
    • Graviton
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  • DevOps

    We plan the roadmap, set up CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure as code and containers, and train your team to run them.

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