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What "Cloud-Agnostic" Really Means in 2025 (And Why It's Not What You Think)

What "Cloud-Agnostic" Really Means in 2025 (And Why It's Not What You Think)

"Cloud-Agnostic" is one of the most seductive and misunderstood buzzwords in our industry. For years, we've been sold a utopia: the promise of building an application once and then freely moving it between AWS, Azure, and GCP with a single click, as if they were interchangeable utilities. In 2025, it's time to say it clearly: this idea no longer reflects the complexity of real-world cloud architectures. Chasing the "run anywhere" myth leads companies to build bland, lowest-common-denominator systems that fail to leverage the true power of any cloud. You end up paying the price of the cloud without enjoying its main benefits. But this doesn't mean the idea is worthless. It just means the real value isn't where we've been told to look. True "cloud-agnostic" isn't about [i]implementation portability[/i]; it's about [i]architecture standardization.[/i]

Announcing Hetzner Cloud support in Fractal Cloud

Announcing Hetzner Cloud support in Fractal Cloud

Today we are adding Hetzner Cloud to Fractal Cloud. Teams that choose Hetzner for European sovereignty can now provision secure, production‑ready Kubernetes and move workloads across vendors with a single, automated workflow. The result is developer self service with governance built in, and a clear path to sovereign multicloud without lock in. [img]https://fractal.cloud/uploads/1758806309310_1_66eb622018.svg[/img]

Designing for Resilience: from Disaster Recovery to Strategic Advantage

Designing for Resilience: from Disaster Recovery to Strategic Advantage

In cloud engineering, there is a fundamental truth: systems fail. It's not a matter of "if," but "when." Provider Service Level Agreements (SLAs), with their "nines" (99.9%, 99.99%), are not a promise of infallible uptime; they are the contractual guarantee that failures, however rare, are an expected part of the service. The "Shared Responsibility" model is clear: the provider is responsible for the reliability of the infrastructure, while we are responsible for the reliability of our applications running on it. When a core service or an entire region goes offline, it's not a "betrayal." It's an expected operational event. The real question isn't why it happened, but how we respond.

Beyond YAML: How an SDK Elevates Infrastructure as Code to a True Software Engineering Discipline

Beyond YAML: How an SDK Elevates Infrastructure as Code to a True Software Engineering Discipline

For years, Infrastructure as Code (IaC) has promised us the ability to manage cloud complexity with the same efficiency as application code. Tools based on declarative languages and YAML configuration files have revolutionized the way we work, allowing us to define our desired state. But let's be honest: how many times have we found ourselves copying and pasting hundreds of lines of YAML, only to change a couple of values? How often have we fought with the syntax of a loop in a configuration language or skipped writing a test because "it's just config"? This approach, while powerful, has forced us to operate with a limited set of tools. Complex logic, reusability, and testability remain painful. It gave us the "Code" part of IaC, but it deprived us of the "Engineering" part. What if we could overcome these limits? What if we could define our infrastructure using the same power, flexibility, and patterns we use to build our business applications? This is the paradigm shift that an SDK in a true programming language brings to the table.

From Bottleneck to value multiplier: Scaling Human Expertise in the Cloud Era

From Bottleneck to value multiplier: Scaling Human Expertise in the Cloud Era

A security team resolves a critical vulnerability. An architect defines a flawless resilience pattern. A database expert optimizes a complex query. In most companies, these solutions remain tacit knowledge, dispensed through manual consultations that don't scale. What if every solution could be transformed into a reusable digital asset, instantly available to the entire organization? In the age of cloud and DevOps, the "you build it, you run it" mantra has given development teams great autonomy, but it has also buried them in enormous complexity. To manage this chaos, many organizations created centralized teams of experts. Unfortunately, these teams often turned into well-intentioned but ineffective gatekeepers—bottlenecks that slow down innovation with manual reviews. This article isn't about replacing one tool with another. It's about a more profound shift: how to move beyond the gatekeeper model to transform expert teams from guardians into value catalysts, through a new socio-technical paradigm: [b]Platform Engineering[/b] and the [b]"Platform as a Product"[/b] concept.

Overcoming Operational Complexity: How Fractal Cloud Unifies Automation, Compliance, and Governance.

Overcoming Operational Complexity: How Fractal Cloud Unifies Automation, Compliance, and Governance.

In the modern DevOps cycle, and with the rising adoption of Platform Engineering, many teams operate with distributed tools that separately handle provisioning, configuration, monitoring, and compliance. This approach increases dependence on cloud specialists and makes it difficult to maintain consistency across environments. With Fractal Cloud, these activities are integrated into a single Internal Developer Platform (IDP). Governance, security, and automation are embedded into versioned and reusable components called [b][i]Fractals[/i][/b], which include technical blueprints, policies, and managed operations.

Fractal Architecture: a Component Model for Secure, Governed and Ready-to-Use Infrastructure.

Fractal Architecture: a Component Model for Secure, Governed and Ready-to-Use Infrastructure.

Fractal Architecture is a Platform Engineering model designed for simplifying infrastructure definition for complex, multi-cloud, and regulated enterprise environments. It enables development teams to operate with declarative autonomy within a secure, versioned, and governed infrastructure system. Through a composable, automated, and compliance-by-design approach, it reduces operational debt and accelerates platform evolution. Fractal Cloud implements this model by transforming infrastructure into a system of modular, versioned components that are automated and mapped to shared policies.