Choosing a Cloud for Agents: A Decision You Can Defend

The synthesis module. Not what the three platforms are — you already know that — but how to decide between them: the axes that actually carry weight (data gravity, identity provider, delivery surface, boundary constraints, commitments, team skills), what travels when you change your mind, the security invariants that must hold on any cloud, how to run an honest bake-off, and a decision tree that ends in a recommendation you can put in writing.

Content current as of 2026-09.

Lessons

  1. Six axes carry the decision — feature lists do not
  2. What travels, what you rewrite, what you re-earn
  3. Identity and egress: the invariants that must hold on any cloud
  4. Cost has a shape — and how to run an honest bake-off
  5. The decision tree, and one scenario walked to a recommendation