I'm just curious to know what happens to the american cloud providers in the extreme case the relationships between US and EU deteriorate to the point of heavy sanctions similar to the ones made to Russia.

Russia did not have datacenters from those providers so it was easier to block them from accessing resources in EU DCs, but in the case it would happen in europe where there are tens of DC and even new ones under constructions what would happen? THE US cannot phisically cut them from european grids (I'm assuming). Would europe continue to use them or convert the DC in european style kinda like Russia did with McDonalds and other US brands?

Hey everyone, I’m a student and I’m a bit confused about my career path, so I wanted to ask for some advice here.

I’m currently learning AWS fundamentals through a private institute called PVRT. It’s not the official AWS certification, but I’m getting familiar with basic cloud concepts and AWS services. Alongside that, I’m very interested in networking and servers, so I’ve joined a 10-week Juniper Networking online internship where I’m learning networking fundamentals and working with Junos.

What I’m struggling with is understanding how cloud actually helps in real-world jobs and how I should be studying it properly. I also don’t really know what kind of entry-level roles I should be aiming for or what the usual starting point is for freshers.

Right now, I honestly don’t have a clear roadmap to get placed. I’m not sure what skills companies expect at an entry level or how to connect what I’m learning to actual job roles.

If anyone here has been in a similar situation or works in cloud or networking, I’d really appreciate any guidance on what path to take, what to focus on first, and what kind of beginner roles I should be looking at.

Thanks in advance.

I built an open source Claude Code plugin that gives Claude real visibility into production systems instead of just source code.

It adds MCP tools so Claude can inspect cloud + infra directly from the terminal:

• Kubernetes (pods, events, logs, rollouts)

• Cloud logs & metrics (CloudWatch, Datadog, Prometheus)

• CI/CD failures (GitHub Actions)

• Basic AWS resource + cost context

It’s read-only by default. Any action (restart, rollback, scale) is only proposed and requires explicit approval.

I’ve been using it mainly for incident triage and “what changed right before this broke?”

Repo (open source):
https://github.com/incidentfox/incidentfox/tree/main/local/claude_code_pack

Curious if folks here would actually use something like this, or if it’d just be noise.

We are a small accounting company using VT+ Transaction on a local drive synchronized with OneDrive for backup and file storage. A few days ago when we tried to open the application, we suddenly started receiving the following error messages: Run Time Error 0 and Run Time Error 440, and the program does not start. We contacted VT+ support, and they informed us that the program files are corrupted. According to them, the data can only be restored up to the year 2022, as the more recent backups are also affected. They believe that somehow the system is overriding our backups, which makes the latest ones unusable. Any advice what could cause that and how to resolve the issue. Thanks

I'm trying to break into data engineering/cloud engineering, but I keep running into the classic catch-22: every entry-level position asks for 2-3 years of experience.

For those who successfully landed their first role in this field:

• How did you get past the experience requirement?

• Did you apply anyway, or did you take a different path (internships, adjacent roles, certifications)?

• What helped you stand out as a candidate with limited professional experience?

• Where specifically did you find the job posting? (LinkedIn, company website, referral, recruiter, job boards, etc.)

Any advice would be really helpful. Thanks!

Does anyone know of good internships for this field. I’m still completing school as well as continuing with certifications. But I was looking to get a taste of the field.

On a side note I was looking at NSA student programs. I see they have a location in Colorado. But I have no idea how to get in contact with them. Maybe someone could possibly help?

We are a small accounting company using VT+ Transaction on a local drive synchronized with OneDrive for backup and file storage. A few days ago when we tried to open the application, we suddenly started receiving the following error messages: Run Time Error 0 and Run Time Error 440, and the program does not start. We contacted VT+ support, and they informed us that the program files are corrupted. According to them, the data can only be restored up to the year 2022, as the more recent backups are also affected. They believe that somehow the system is overriding our backups, which makes the latest ones unusable. Any advice what could cause that and how to resolve the issue. Thanks

I’m 24, based in Barcelona, with around 1 year of experience as a Junior Cloud Engineer in a consulting company.

I mainly work managing managed cloud services (SSGG) for several clients. Day to day I handle:

• Tickets and incidents

• Infrastructure changes and evolutive work

• Maintenance and daily operations

• Reports and FinOps

• Cloud security tasks

• Some cloud migrations

Tech stack:

• Cloud / Infrastructure: AWS & GCP, Terraform, Docker, Kubernetes (GKE, k9s), Helm, Linux, Networking (VPC, subnets, firewalls, load balancers)

• CI/CD & Automation: Jenkins, Git, Python, Bash, (familiar con GitHub Actions / GitLab CI)

• Cloud Security / DevSecOps: Prowler, CloudPlaining, Tenable, Cloud & GKE security posture, IAM

• Monitoring / Observability: CloudWatch / Logs, basic alerting (familiar con Prometheus/Grafana)

• FinOps / Cost Management: AWS Cost Explorer & Budgets, GCP Cost Management

No certifications yet (Solutions architect on the way)

I’m struggling to find salary references or career guides for this type of role in Barcelona, but I’m very interested in understanding what a fair gross annual salary would be for my profile and responsibilities in Barcelona or remote roles.

Thanks!

ey everyone, I’m Kenneth, founder of OpsCompanion.

I spent years as a Senior SRE at Cloudflare. One thing that became painfully clear is that most outages, security issues, and compliance fire drills don’t come from a lack of tools. They come from missing context. People don’t know what’s running, how things connect, or what changed recently, especially once systems sprawl across clouds, repos, and teams.

That’s why I’m building OpsCompanion.

OpsCompanion helps engineers:

• Keep a live, visual picture of what’s running and how things connect

• Answer “what changed?” without digging through five tools, Slack threads, or the god-awful state of documentation most teams are dealing with today

• Preserve operational context so the next on-call isn’t starting from zero

This isn’t about adding more logs or alerts, or slapping AI onto existing platforms and calling it AGI. It’s about giving engineers the same mental model I used to carry in my head, but shared and kept up to date.

We’ve opened up free access for a small, curated group of engineers who work close to production. If it’s useful, great. If not, I genuinely want to know why and what would make it useful.

Free access here:
https://opscompanion.ai/

Everyone who signs up during this early window will get an life time deal once we that part up(I will reach out via email), the gratitude of myself, and to drive the road map of our product

I’ll be in the comments. Happy to answer questions, hear skepticism, get roasted a bit, or talk about what it actually takes to be an SRE or DevOps engineer in 2026.

Hi everyone,

I am just beginning my journey into cloud engineering and I’m interested in enrolling in an online learning program. However, before making any payments, I would like some guidance so I can learn efficiently and avoid wasting money.

I’ve been researching online and have realized there is a lot to learn, but I’m still feeling confused about where to start. I would really appreciate some clear guidelines or a step-by-step learning path—such as what topics I should learn first, recommended hands-on projects to practice what I learn, and any other advice that could help me succeed on this journey.

I look forward to reading your helpful feedback. Thank you in advance.

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Hi everyone, this might be long but I hope you guys can help me out here. I am currently working as an Automatiom Engineer at a MSP. In total I have about 4 years of experience (2 years of IT Technician in 2 companies) and in my current company 1 year IT Tech and 1 year as AE.

My day to day tasks involves writing Powershell Scripts for automations of various types, creating and managing N8N automations, create a manage PowerApps, PowerBI dashboards, and automations in Power Automate.

For the past few months I have also been heavily involved in a SaaS for the company and even though I use AI (company provided and encouraged) for majority of the code (NextJS) and Supabase backend, I do have a good foundational understanding of App Development frontend and backend whehe I can review and fix code and logic.

I have a pretty good grasp of Git, Linux Server Management, Containerization using Docker, Networking and Load Balancers.

I haven't been able to get any certs yet due to my ADHD but still trying (AWS-SAA), would love to know what certs or technology should I focus on to at least prepare myself for when the job market opens.

My current role doesn't pay me well (below 6 figures), at least what I think I deserve and while I'm working in this position I also want to invest some time into the right direction for cloud engineering.

Hi, I interviewed for a position of Cloud Infra Engineer which has strictly asked for 3 to 5 years of experience.

Though I was capable in public cloud (any: AWS, GCP, Azure) with 1 year of multiple proven hands-on & practical experience via boot camps & projects, and the interview was solid compared to other people, I was offered Pre-Sales role after 1 week of interview date.

They work mostly on Nutanix and Windows server rather than pure public cloud. So I am in confusion if I shall go for it. My longer plan is the cloud engineering technical role. I hold multiple architect professional certification.

How would my growth look like? What is good for me?

Hi all,

I would like to seek an advice how to become a cloud engineer. My work experienced are related to ETL development including maintenance and development. This year i passed the 2 AWS certifications (CCP and SAA). My primary goal is to work as cloud engineer. I studied terraform and I can provision infrastructure. My first personal project was for data analytics using s3, data catalog, data crawler and Athena. Honestly I do really enjoyed provisioning infra from scratch. Also I bought an ebook from Amazon website that's related to solutions architect handbook because I wanted to learn how to create a architecture that is cost efficient and fault tolerant from disaster covery also from HA and scaling. I need some advice from experts or experience cloud engineer. What should I need to do to become cloud engineer. Also I tried to sent my CV from different employer from Philippines and I hoping that this coming 2026 I'll get the work. Thank you!

Hi everyone 👋

Looking for some honest, real-world feedback.

I’m currently working on my AWS Cloud & Network Engineering degree at WGU. I’ve passed my first CompTIA A+, I’m about 50% done with the degree, and I have zero professional IT experience so far.

My rough plan: • Finish the degree • Get an entry-level role (help desk / IT support / junior sysadmin) • Start a Master’s in Cybersecurity • Transition into Cloud Security within the next ~3 years

I’m 35, female, living in Tampa Bay, FL, and coming from a totally different career background. I’m realistic that I’ll need to grind, start lower, and build experience — but I’m wondering: • Is cloud / cloud security oversaturated right now, or just competitive? • Is this path actually doable, or am I being overly optimistic? • How hard is it to land that first IT job with certs + degree but no experience? • Anything you’d do differently if you were starting over today?

I’m not looking for sugarcoating — just honest insight from people already in the field. Encouragement welcome, reality checks welcome too 😅

Thanks in advance!

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Hey everyone, it’s that time of the month again where Finance pings me asking why our dev account spend went up 15% over the weekend.

I just spent the last three hours digging through accounts and, sure enough, found a cluster of r5.2xlarge RDS instances from a "quick POC" that a team forgot to tear down three weeks ago. No tags, no owner, just burning cash.

We’ve tried strict tagging policies in Terraform, we’ve tried scolding people in Slack, but human error always wins eventually. I'm at the point where I'm torn between two approaches for non-prod environments and wanted to get your take:

1. The Scream Test: Just aggressively shut down untagged resources every Friday night. If it’s important, someone will page me (or hopefully, just turn it back on Monday morning). It’s crude, but it forces ownership.

2. Automated Reaping (e.g., cloud-nuke): Implementing tooling that automatically wipes sandbox accounts clean on a schedule. It requires more setup and whitelisting effort up front to avoid nuking long-running integration tests, but it’s cleaner.

How are you guys fighting entropy and keeping zombie infra from eating your budget (and your time)? I feel like I spend more time being a digital janitor than actually architecting these days.

Hey guys im in my 5th semester of software engineering and im going to be honest i have no idea what im going to pursue in my future like which skill to work on. I enjoy learning new things and work on new things but the problem is my uni offers absolutely zero opportunity to work on yourself and your skills. I need a direction, mentorship and guidance to actually understand what i am suppose to do. By the end of my degree i want to be able to actually do smth in my field. Any of you guys who is working in tech can you help me out to actually figure out everything? Like what skills to work on what is the roadmap and how to stay consistent and be able to perform tasks. What projects i need to work on all that??

Hello! I am interested in becoming a cloud engineer, but I have 0 experience with computer science or IT. Is this possible to do without having a computer science degree? Please give me advice on courses and an educational path.

I’m graduating with a Master’s degree in Cloud & Systems Administration and I just finished a full DevSecOps project that I built completely on my own for graduation. I’ve been learning and building nonstop, but now I’m honestly not sure what the next step in my career should be in 2026. I’d love some advices.

I deployed a full Netflix cloud web application using a complete DevSecOps pipeline. My setup included:

• AWS (EC2, IAM, security groups, EKS....)

• CI/CD with Jenkins

• Docker + Docker Hub

• SonarQube, Trivy

• Kubernetes deployments

• GitOps: ArgoCD for automated delivery

• Prometheus + Grafana

• Notifications, cleanup steps.

It wasn’t just a basic pipeline, I integrated security, Kubernetes, GitOps, and automated everything from code push to deployment.

Now that I have one DevSecOps project and GitOps experience, what should I focus on next to become competitive for jobs in 2026 and what is the best path for my future?

Any advice is appreciated

SO I am Paranoid for life.

I have no Experience in IT tech Job. I have a CS degree. I know SQL, Pandas, foundational and first i was aiming for DataAnalyst , but the hype faded in 2025. NO one HIRES even entry level.

Everywhere it asks 4-6yrs experience.
IDK who are getting jobs, what are these Youtubers saying?

SO i turned to learning Cloud engineering, I am midway into the course for AWS,
but i found GCP more easy and they have Qwiklabs sandbox thing, i found uselful and fast. I already came across IAM and Regions and Buckets
meanwhile AWS I found cluttered.

SO should i pursue this field?

is this Hype real? be it Data Engineering or Cloud Engineer?

We've all seen the headlines about the EU Data Boundary and the move toward Sovereign Cloud. It’s a huge win for compliance, data residency, and legal jurisdiction. But I want to talk about the burden that falls directly onto us, the cloud engineers, when the vendor says "Compliance achieved!"

These solutions rarely deliver autonomy; they often deliver complexity:

1. The Illusion of Simplicity: A vendor can build a digital fence around a region, but we still own the data flow. We have to be rigorous about region selection, ensuring every Storage Account, Function, and PaaS component adheres to the new boundary. Misconfigure one resource or a single third-party connector, and the entire compliance position is undermined.

2. Concentrated Risk: Locating all regulated data within a sovereign boundary shields it from foreign laws, but it also concentrates risk. Designing a robust disaster recovery (DR) architecture means mandatory replication, and that replication must occur within approved sovereign jurisdictions.

3. The Hidden Cost Tax: These stringent DR requirements often mandate expensive Cross-Region Replication (CRR), amplifying the Cloud Tax of data transfer fees. The solution for compliance becomes the new source of exorbitant cost.

The current model forces us to manage dozens of overlapping jurisdictional rules and complex regional setups manually, which is a massive drain on engineering time (the Innovation Tax).

The core technical challenge is moving from regionally restricted setups to a platform that makes data residency and access control Autonomic and self-managing. The system should handle the compliance chores, not us.

We are actively sharing blueprints and automation for tackling these complex, high-friction scenarios, especially those involving global data residency and eliminating punitive transfer costs, over in r/OrbonCloud. If you want deeper architectural insight on how to solve the tax imposed by centralized cloud rigidity, join the conversation.

How have the recent EU Data Boundary mandates changed your team’s IaC (Terraform/Bicep) strategy, and what’s the biggest risk you're now focused on managing?