Avoiding Bad Decisions in Your Cloud Strategy

Avoiding Bad Decisions in Your Cloud Strategy

47mBeginner2023-10-03

Authors

Lee Atchison

Lee Atchison

Cloud Strategist, Thought Leader, Industry Cloud Expert

Course details

Whether you’re migrating an existing application to the cloud or building a cloud-native application from scratch, it’s best to prepare yourself before you start to avoid common mistakes along the way. In this course, instructor Lee Atchison explores some of the biggest mistakes people make when utilizing the cloud to meet their application needs.

Learn how to identify and successfully avoid common cloud pitfalls, such as misunderstanding security requirements, poorly defining roles, mismanaging cost, underestimating cloud capabilities, building a weak cloud team, and much more. Gather insights and best practices on how to do the opposite, thinking long term, making decisions dynamically, and defining your success criteria up front. By the end of this course, you’ll be ready to shift your mindset and expertise to create a cloud success story within your organization.

Skills covered

Enterprise ArchitectureCloud FoundationsCloud ComputingSoftware DevelopmentOne-Off

Concepts

Introduction

  • Understanding what makes a bad decision in the cloud

Top Bad Decisions to Avoid

  • Don t - Stop a migration too early
  • Don't - Use a data center mentality
  • Don't - Use serverless exclusively
  • Don't - Misunderstand cloud costs
  • Don't - Fail to define a cloud migration architect role
  • Don't - Think the cloud is not secure

How to Avoid These Mistakes

  • Do - Create a cloud center of excellence
  • Do - Define success criteria upfront
  • Do - Think long term
  • Do - Think dynamically
  • Do - Understand cloud security

Conclusion

  • Success in the cloud and learning more
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