{"podcast":{"title":"Cloud Computing with Fexingo: AWS, Azure, GCP, and Modern Infrastructure Conversations","slug":"cloud-computing-with-fexingo-aws-azure-gcp-and-modern-infrastructure-conversations-7871918","podcast_index_feed_id":7871918,"rss_url":"https://feeds.fexingo.com/business/cloud-computing.xml","website_url":"https://www.fexingo.com/","image_url":"https://audio.fexingo.com/business/cloud-computing/cover.png","author":"Fexingo","episode_count":105,"summary":"Cloud computing is the backbone of modern business, but the landscape is shifting fast. Lucas and Luna cut through the vendor noise to examine the real-world strategies behind AWS, Azure, and GCP — from multi-cloud architectures to edge computing and container orchestration. Each episode takes a single infrastructure decision, like choosing a database service or designing for disaster recovery, and traces its implications for cost, latency, and developer productivity. Lucas brings deep technical fluency and a journalist's skepticism toward marketing claims; Luna tests each argument against case studies from companies like Netflix, Capital One, and Adobe. They don't just compare prices — they explore trade-offs in lock-in, compliance, and operational complexity. Whether dissecting a Kubernetes outage or the economics of serverless, the conversation is always grounded in concrete specs and real bills. This is the podcast for engineering leaders and cloud architects who want to make informed bets, not follow trends. But what happens when the cloud giants change their pricing mid-contract? That's exactly the kind of tension Lucas and Luna live inside — and the conversation that will r…","last_synced_at":"2026-07-12T08:17:01.746696+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/cloud-computing-with-fexingo-aws-azure-gcp-and-modern-infrastructure-conversations-7871918"},"episode":{"title":"How Cloud Providers Are Taxing Cross-Region Traffic in 2026","slug":"how-cloud-providers-are-taxing-cross-region-traffic-in-2026","published_at":"2026-06-22T20:24:47+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/cloud-computing-with-fexingo-aws-azure-gcp-and-modern-infrastructure-conversations-7871918/how-cloud-providers-are-taxing-cross-region-traffic-in-2026","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/cloud-computing-with-fexingo-aws-azure-gcp-and-modern-infrastructure-conversations-7871918","url":"https://audio.fexingo.com/business/cloud-computing/episode-0067.mp3","audio_url":"https://audio.fexingo.com/business/cloud-computing/episode-0067.mp3","summary":"Episode 67 explores a quiet but costly shift in cloud pricing: the new cross-region data transfer taxes that AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud have introduced in 2026. Lucas breaks down how a mid-size SaaS company's monthly bill jumped 18% when their engineering team started routing traffic through a secondary region for latency optimization. Luna questions whether these taxes are really about network costs or about locking customers into single-region architectures. The hosts unpack the fine print of egress pricing tiers, the oddly specific exemption for AI training data pipelines, and what this means for multi-region disaster recovery strategies. They also discuss the new 'home region discount' credits and whether enterprises can negotiate around them. Concrete takeaway: one specific clause in Google Cloud's updated service terms that effectively charges you for sending data between your own virtual private clouds in different regions. If you run workloads across even two regions, this episode will change how you read your next cloud bill. #CloudComputing #AWS #Azure #GoogleCloud #DataTransfer #CloudPricing #EgressFees #MultiRegion #CloudCosts #Infrastructure #Technology #FexingoBusiness #BusinessPodcast #CloudArchitecture #NetworkCosts #SaaS #DisasterRecovery #DataGravity Keep every episode free: buymeacoffee.com/fexingo","meta_description":"Episode 67 explores a quiet but costly shift in cloud pricing: the new cross-region data transfer taxes that AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud have introduced…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":621,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/cloud-computing-with-fexingo-aws-azure-gcp-and-modern-infrastructure-conversations-7871918/episodes/how-cloud-providers-are-taxing-cross-region-traffic-in-2026/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/cloud-computing-with-fexingo-aws-azure-gcp-and-modern-infrastructure-conversations-7871918/how-cloud-providers-are-taxing-cross-region-traffic-in-2026.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}