Cloud & Productivity

A field note on a Bengaluru startup’s surprise AWS bill, and how killing waste plus AISPL INR billing cut the run-rate 38 percent.

Tenant to tenant migration after acquisition: how a Bengaluru fintech merged two Microsoft 365 tenants in 60 days with BitTitan MigrationWiz.

A 14-person Indore studio right-sized its Adobe Creative Cloud for teams renewal: All Apps for power users, Single App for the rest, billed in rupees with GST input credit.

TL;DR: The CISO walked into the shortlist leaning Okta. The IT head pointed at the M365 invoice they already pay every year. Both were half right. The NBFC was on Microsoft 365 E3 for 600 seats, which already includes Entra ID P1. Buying Okta on top is net-new spend; upgrading the identity tier inside Microsoft…

A 250-seat Pune fintech renewal call. Why role-mix Intune licensing in India beats a flat Business Premium quote by thirteen lakh a year, with the SKU table we landed on.

Hexnode vs Intune for Indian field teams: a 60-day Ahmedabad bake-off across 110 supervisors. The split-fleet decision and why.

How a 90-seat Gurgaon edtech ran the Google Workspace pricing India math on a renewal call: split-fleet Business Standard plus Business Plus, with a fixed-rupee Year 2 cap.

Digitate AIOps India in action: how ignio fixed a Mumbai SaaS firm’s failing Sunday-batch job, cut MTTR from 71 to 9 minutes, and let the on-call sleep.

A Bengaluru SaaS data team’s six-month Cloudera vs Databricks India decision: cost, RBI residency, 41 TB egress and what tipped it.

How a Bengaluru MSP runs CloudBlue CSP India for 280 SMB customers. A month-end Wednesday, a Bitdefender price drift, and the reconciliation that caught it.