Shared responsibility: what your cloud provider will not do for you
Cloud providers secure the cloud. Agencies secure what they put in it. The line between those matters in an audit.
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HQT blog posts on cloud for public agency technology teams.
Model the cloud bill before you move the workload
A method for building a defensible cloud cost estimate before a migration, and the line items a first model leaves out.
Cloud cost surprises and public budgets do not mix
Why variable cloud bills are a governance problem for agencies, and the controls that keep them predictable.
Infrastructure as code is for small teams too
The case for scripting your cloud environment even when there are only two of you.
Why we would build a permit portal on serverless services
Resident-facing services have spiky demand and small budgets. Pay-per-use architecture fits both.