What fails in an AWS region outage, why us-east-1 hurts apps outside it, the four resilience architectures, what active-active costs, and what to do first.
Blog
From the Control Plane blog
Cloud-native engineering, multi-cloud strategy, and platform deep-dives.
All posts
The best sandboxes for AI agents and LLM-generated code in 2026: Control Plane, E2B, Modal, Daytona, Vercel, Cloudflare, Runloop, and Fly.io compared.
Analysis of 62 major AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, and Cloudflare outages since 2020: causes, durations, the region that appears most, and how to limit the damage.
The best cloud providers for data sovereignty and residency in 2026: AWS European Sovereign Cloud, Microsoft, Google, OVHcloud, IONOS, STACKIT, and more.
The best VMware alternatives after Broadcom’s changes: Nutanix, OpenShift Virtualization, Hyper-V, Proxmox, Harvester, hosted VMware, and an exit plan.
The best cloud migration tools in 2026: AWS Transform MGN, Azure Migrate, Google Migration Center, AWS DMS, Velero, and more, by migration path.
The best GPU cloud providers for AI inference and training in 2026: AWS, Google Cloud, Azure, CoreWeave, Lambda, Nebius, and a rent vs build cost formula.
How to let AI agents change production infrastructure safely: agent identity, least privilege, short-lived credentials, approval, audit trails, and rollback.
Every major AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, and Cloudflare outage since 2020, with durations, root causes, sources, and downtime costs. Updated October 2026.
The best cloud cost optimization and FinOps tools in 2026: Control Plane, CloudZero, Vantage, Kubecost, Cast AI, and ProsperOps, compared by how they save.
The best Kubernetes management platforms and tools in 2026, from Control Plane to EKS, GKE, AKS, Rancher, and OpenShift, ranked by what you still operate.
Control Plane, Qovery, Render, Backstage, Port, Argo CD, and 7 more internal developer platform tools, ranked for teams with no platform engineers.