Avoiding Bad Decisions in Your Cloud Strategy

47mBeginner2023-10-03

Authors

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

0. Introduction

01 - Understanding what makes a bad decision in the cloud

1. Top Bad Decisions to Avoid

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

2. How to Avoid These Mistakes

08 - Do - Create a cloud center of excellence
09 - Do - Define success criteria upfront
10 - Do - Think long term
11 - Do - Think dynamically
12 - Do - Understand cloud security

Conclusion

13 - Success in the cloud and learning more