InfraForensics is an independent systems engineering and cloud financial analysis publication dedicated to Forensic Cloud FinOps, Bare-Metal Infrastructure Architecture, and Cloud Repatriation.
Our Core Mission
Modern cloud computing has shifted from an operational efficiency into an extractive billing trap dominated by opaque data egress tolls, predatory NAT Gateway markups, and compounding hyperscaler margins. InfraForensics was established to provide infrastructure directors, staff engineers, and financial leaders with uncompromising engineering clarity—delivering mathematically verified cloud repatriation blueprints and bare-metal performance benchmarks.
Editorial Leadership
Declan Frost
Principal Cloud Infrastructure Analyst & FinOps Editor
Declan Frost leads the forensic workload audits, eBPF telemetry benchmarks, and multi-tenant repatriation models across InfraForensics. Bringing over fifteen years of distributed systems engineering, hyper-converged bare-metal deployments, and enterprise cloud contract audits, Declan cuts through vendor marketing hype to defend engineering and architectural sovereignty.
His research focuses on deconstructing hyperscaler network routing markups, profiling AWS NAT Gateway egress processing tolls, auditing cross-AZ transfer charges, and designing high-throughput, low-latency colocation architectures using AMD EPYC and NVMe-oF fabrics.
Our Five Core Focus Pillars
- Cloud Repatriation: Full-lifecycle migration frameworks from AWS, GCP, and Azure to owned bare metal, zero-downtime database replication, and colocation design.
- Cloud FinOps: Forensic billing deconstructions, cross-AZ traffic tolls, predatory NAT Gateway surcharges, and Kubernetes bin-packing cost optimization.
- Bare-Metal Architecture: Enterprise server hardware teardowns (Supermicro, Dell PowerEdge, AMD EPYC), NVMe-oF SAN arrays, and 100GbE RoCEv2 spine-leaf switching.
- DevSecOps & Reliability: eBPF kernel observability, Cilium service mesh architectures, self-hosted CI/CD pipelines, and high-availability disaster recovery failovers.
- Forensic Audits: End-to-end cloud infrastructure audits, enterprise contract renegotiation blueprints, and root-cause post-mortems of major cloud outages.
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