Engineering
AWS Cost Guardrails for AI and Cloud Teams
A practical pattern for AWS Organizations cost control using AWS Budgets, Cost Anomaly Detection, service-specific Bedrock alerts, and an emergency SCP stop switch.
Staff at ZSoftly8 min readBlog
From the ZCP team
Product announcements, engineering posts, tutorials, and stories from a Canadian-owned cloud platform.
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Staff at ZSoftly8 min read
Engineering
Building the ZCP Terraform / OpenTofu Provider
ZCP infrastructure is now code. How we built our provider on the CLI SDK, what live testing taught us about state, networks, and public IPs, and why we ship to both registries with signed releases.
Ditah Kumbong5 min readAnnouncements
Introducing ZSoftly Cloud Platform
ZCP is an independent sovereign cloud running on bare metal we own, with two live regions (YUL-1, YOW-1) and five more planned across North America and Europe.
Ditah Kumbong4 min readEngineering
Cloud service models: MaaS, IaaS, PaaS, SaaS at a glance
A short guide to the four-layer cloud stack: Metal, Infrastructure, Platform, and Software as a Service, with ZCP services mapped to each layer.
ZSoftly Team2 min read
Tutorials
Managed DNS on ZCP: how it works and how to set up a domain
A walkthrough of the managed DNS service on ZCP, the two-nameserver architecture behind it, and the portal steps to create and manage a zone.
ZSoftly Team13 min readEngineering
Object, block, and file storage: which one to use?
A practical primer on object, block, and file storage. What each one is, when to pick which, and how the categories map to ZCP pricing in 2026.
ZSoftly Team3 min read