Infrastructure that does not wake anyone up at night: cloud architecture, deployment pipelines, monitoring and scaling decisions.
Cloud decisions are usually made once and lived with for years, which is why the articles below spend more time on the trade-offs than on the provider comparison. Managed database or self-hosted, one region or several, how much of the platform to adopt before the lock-in outweighs the convenience.
For companies of the size served here, the operational questions matter more than the architectural ones: what happens when a deployment fails halfway, how a restore is tested rather than assumed, how long the business can be down before it is a real problem, and who is called at two in the morning.
EU data residency is a recurring constraint rather than a preference — for a Belgian company with public-sector or healthcare clients it frequently decides the platform before performance or price get a vote.
