Three years of investigation, one memorandum of understanding
The UK spent three years investigating cloud competition, recommended designating AWS and Microsoft as strategic-market-status suppliers, and then accepted voluntary commitments instead. A field guide to telling real remedies from theater.
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Install the Light Cloud MCP server in Claude Code with one command, ask it to deploy a folder, and get a live URL. A real session with screenshots: deploy, redeploy, password.
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Three minutes, no laptop, and a long drive still in my legs. I pitched the platform at KitchenPitch, FreshMango's pitch day, and left out the best thing we are building. Here is why that was the right call, what the mentors fixed afterwards, and the part where I did not recognize the accelerator CEO.
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GAIA-X, EuroStack, and now a 180-million-euro sovereign tender with Google inside the tent. Europe keeps trying to build a thing when what it lacks is a property, and the property is portability.
Deploy an Angular 22 app made with the Angular CLI to Light Cloud: the dist/<project>/browser output folder is detected automatically, Angular Router deep links work, and every git push redeploys.
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Deploy a Vue 3 app made with create-vue, including Vue Router history mode and TypeScript, to Light Cloud: detected automatically and live in about 30 seconds.
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Create a React app with Vite, push it to GitHub and deploy it on Light Cloud's free plan: detected automatically, built in 15 seconds, updated on every git push.
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Terraform went BSL in 2023, the community forked it, and IBM bought the company anyway. The lesson isn't that HashiCorp was villainous. It's that a license is a contract one side can rewrite, and your infrastructure planning has to price that.
Trace a request through two Light Cloud services with a shared x-request-id, write JSON logs with a severity field, and use the Logs tab's search and level filter to find failures fast.
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Use Light Cloud branch environments to preview a change across three services, merge it into production, and roll back a bad deploy in 13 seconds without a rebuild.
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AT&T told a court it was facing a 1,050% price increase. CISPE members reported hikes up to 1,500%. Broadcom's VMware playbook wasn't a scandal; it was a valuation of switching costs, executed precisely, and it predicts the next consolidation wave.
Measure cold starts on Light Cloud with curl, compare scale to zero with an always-on instance, and use real numbers to set timeouts and decide what to keep warm.
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Load test a Light Cloud service with oha, watch it scale from zero to five instances, and learn why concurrency and database connection pools decide how well autoscaling works.
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