Frontier on Cloud
I run Frontier on Cloud, independent engineering communities that test new cloud AI capabilities and publish the measurements, one community per cloud. They are not affiliated with Google, Amazon or Microsoft.
One community per cloud
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r/FrontierOnGCP
GenAI, agents, RAG and security on Google Cloud: releases, hands-on tests, architectures, costs and limits.
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r/FrontierOnAWS
GenAI, agents, RAG and security on AWS: releases, hands-on tests, architectures, costs and limits.
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r/FrontierOnAzure
GenAI, agents, RAG and security on Microsoft Azure: releases, hands-on tests, architectures, costs and limits.
The communities’ home, with every test, its numbers and its commit: frontieroncloud.com.
Code and raw data for the tests are published in the GitHub organization frontier-on-cloud.
Field notes
Related articles on this site, with the full method and its limits.
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When the connection drops mid-booking: session resumption on Gemini Live, measured
Part three: a pending tool call survives a resume that works, but after a silent loss every resume was refused for 15 minutes. A client-side fallback told the user 6 to 7 s after the loss.
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Making “stop” work on Gemini 3.8 Live: a client-side commit guard, measured
Part two: a client-side guard holds the irreversible step of a tool call until it knows what the user said. With speech input, bookings after “stop” fell from 12 of 12 runs to 0 of 12.
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What “stop” does to an in-flight tool call on Gemini 3.8 Live
A measured test of the Gemini Live API: in 30 sessions, with text and speech, no cancellation arrived for a pending tool call, and BLOCKING mode booked twice.