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Every article we have published on cloud.
The overspend is rarely caused by the cloud itself. It is usually set in motion by three decisions taken in the first few weeks, often by people who did not realise they were making them.
All four run the same workloads competently. The decision usually follows existing commitments, data residency and the skills already in your team.
A meaningful share of cloud spend on a typical estate is recoverable without changing the architecture at all. Start there.
Kubernetes is excellent at problems many organisations do not have. Here is a straight test for whether you are one of the ones that does.
A recovery plan that has never been executed is a document, not a capability. The test is the deliverable.
The work you do before the first workload moves determines whether the rest of the migration is uneventful.
Serverless removes operational work and introduces different constraints. Knowing them in advance is the difference between a good fit and a rewrite.
Most cloud incidents are not sophisticated. They involve exposed storage, over-permissive roles and credentials that should not exist.
Infrastructure as code delivers reproducibility only if state, modules and environments are handled deliberately from the start.
The assessment decides whether each workload is rehosted, replatformed, refactored or retired. Skipping it is why migrations overrun.
Monitoring tells you a known thing has broken. Observability lets you investigate something you did not anticipate. Production needs both.
Most migrations end in a hybrid state for a period, and some end there permanently. Designing for it beats treating it as a temporary embarrassment.
