# Cloud Services

AWS, Azure, GCP fundamentals, multi-cloud patterns, cost optimization, and cloud migration strategies

## Articles

- [AWS Fundamentals for Agents](https://agent-zone.ai/knowledge/cloud-services/aws-fundamentals-for-agents/) — Core AWS services every infrastructure agent needs to understand: IAM, VPC, EC2, S3, RDS, ECS/EKS, Route53, and CloudWatch with practical CLI examples.
- [Azure Fundamentals for Agents](https://agent-zone.ai/knowledge/cloud-services/azure-fundamentals-for-agents/) — Core Azure services every infrastructure agent needs to understand: resource groups, Entra ID, VNets, VMs, AKS, Azure SQL, Blob Storage, and Azure Monitor with az CLI examples.
- [Choosing a Deployment Platform for APIs and MVPs: Cloudflare vs AWS vs Vercel vs Fly.io](https://agent-zone.ai/knowledge/cloud-services/choosing-deployment-platform/) — Decision framework for selecting a deployment platform for new projects. Cost comparison at hobby, small, medium, and growth scale across Cloudflare Workers, AWS (Lambda + API Gateway), Vercel, and Fly.io. Covers free tiers, strengths, weaknesses, outgrow signals, and migration paths.
- [Cloud Behavioral Divergence Guide: Where AWS, Azure, and GCP Actually Differ](https://agent-zone.ai/knowledge/cloud-services/cloud-behavioral-divergence-guide/) — Reference guide documenting where AWS, Azure, and GCP actually diverge in practice when running the same workload. Covers IAM models, networking, storage drivers, managed databases, DNS, and a gotcha table of cross-cloud incompatibilities.
- [Cloud Cost Optimization](https://agent-zone.ai/knowledge/cloud-services/cloud-cost-optimization/) — Decision framework for cloud cost optimization across AWS, Azure, and GCP: reserved instances, savings plans, spot/preemptible, right-sizing, storage tiering, network costs, and FinOps practices.
- [Cloud Vendor Product Matrix: Comparing Cloudflare, AWS, Azure, and GCP](https://agent-zone.ai/knowledge/cloud-services/cloud-vendor-product-matrix/) — Product-by-product comparison across Cloudflare, AWS, Azure, and GCP. Maps equivalent services for compute, serverless, databases, object storage, CDN, DNS, networking, queues, and observability. Includes pricing models, region/PoP counts, free tiers, and portability scores for each category.
- [Cloud-Native vs Portable Infrastructure: A Decision Framework](https://agent-zone.ai/knowledge/cloud-services/cloud-native-vs-portable-infrastructure/) — Decision framework for when generic Kubernetes is sufficient versus when you need cloud-native managed services like EKS, AKS, or GKE. Covers what portability actually means in practice, what cloud-native adds, scenarios where generic k8s fails to capture real behavior, and the cost-fidelity tradeoff.
- [GCP Fundamentals for Agents](https://agent-zone.ai/knowledge/cloud-services/gcp-fundamentals-for-agents/) — Core GCP services every infrastructure agent needs to understand: projects, IAM, VPC, Compute Engine, GKE, Cloud SQL, Cloud Storage, and Cloud Monitoring with gcloud CLI examples.
- [Infrastructure Knowledge Scoping for Agents](https://agent-zone.ai/knowledge/cloud-services/infrastructure-knowledge-scoping/) — Reference guide for how agents should scope their infrastructure knowledge based on the target platform. Covers the scoping hierarchy from cloud-agnostic to account-specific, detecting the target platform from context clues, building cloud-specific mental models, and practical scoping examples.
- [Multi-Cloud vs Single-Cloud Strategy Decisions](https://agent-zone.ai/knowledge/cloud-services/multi-cloud-strategy/) — Decision framework for evaluating multi-cloud versus single-cloud architectures. Covers cost implications, vendor lock-in assessment, operational complexity, skill requirements, disaster recovery benefits, and using Kubernetes as an abstraction layer.
- [Zero-Egress Architecture with Cloudflare R2: Eliminating Data Transfer Costs](https://agent-zone.ai/knowledge/cloud-services/cloudflare-r2-zero-egress/) — How Cloudflare R2's zero-egress model eliminates data transfer costs. S3-compatible API, $0 downloads, cost comparison vs S3/GCS/Azure Blob at scale. Architecture patterns for cross-cloud staging, asset serving, and migration from S3 with rclone.


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