CloudForge
About our publications

How CloudForge publishes its cloud engineering guides

Practical references for the people who have to approve a cloud change, implement it, and operate the result.

Updated

Who publishes the guides

CloudForge is responsible for the guides published on this website. Our focus is cloud architecture, cost management, software delivery and reliability across AWS, Azure and Google Cloud. The company byline identifies the publisher; it does not claim that a named engineer has independently tested every configuration.

Read about CloudForge or explore the cloud engineering library.

How AI assistance is used

The library includes guides developed with AI-assisted research and drafting. This helps organize technical material and explain tradeoffs, but is not evidence of hands-on experience or independent validation. A guide should be evaluated by its sources, assumptions and usefulness, rather than by the company byline alone.

We do not treat generated examples as completed client projects. Where an article describes a calculation, configuration or operational scenario, treat it as guidance to assess in your own environment unless the article explicitly documents an actual engagement.

Sources and technical scope

Our guides link to provider documentation, open standards and project documentation so readers can check the underlying behavior. Cloud features, pricing, quotas and product names change. Follow the cited provider source for current regional availability and commercial terms.

Code and configuration examples need testing against your software versions, access controls and recovery requirements. A useful recommendation explains when it applies, what could fail and how to verify the result. It should also identify when doing nothing is the better choice.

Dates and corrections

Articles show their publication date and, when recorded, the date of a content revision. An updated date means the content changed; it is not a claim that every linked product was retested on that date.

Found an error or a missing qualification? Send a correction to CloudForge with the article URL, the passage in question and a supporting source. Please leave credentials, customer records and other confidential information out of the message.

Results and commercial relationships

Project results describe the scope presented in the individual case study. They are not a forecast for another environment. Cloud savings depend on usage, contract terms, reliability constraints and the cost of making the change.

CloudForge provides paid consulting. Links from guides to our consulting services let readers request help applying the guidance. A vendor logo or a link to a third-party resource does not by itself indicate a certification, partnership or endorsement.