Alessio Panni

One thing i found valuable is to work always looking on how to build, demonstrating it, trust with customer. on this topic, the way to build trust is through transparency on how you do things, on how you control and govern that those has been done properly. Leveraging third parties certifying how you do things is a good way, e.g. through certifications standards, going through CSA CCSM controls, and/or demonstrating with monitoring and reporting of your cloud environments that you follow Well Architected and Ref Architectures design and principles for cloud security.

The balance is not easy but lock in is a topic of every choices, sometimes is technical while some others may be skills and people knowledge acquired. Balance is a complex better and management and tech leadership exercise over time. Vendor lock in in hyper scale cloud should not reduce or limit the benefits of using PaaS and managed services achieving low tco in high availability architectures compared to others options. You should architect and design better as possibile to isolate what is cloud provider dependant and reduce the real factor one should consider: overall cost of change.

Networking skills and network security knowledge are key elements in implementing and operating securely cloud landscapes. Key foundation and landing zones design are becoming standard approach of well architected design, especially when focusing on operating and scaling efficiently.

Coding and software engineering practices are key in working and operating efficiently cloud platforms. Both cloud provider native tools and services as well as cloud native OSS are key skills. When adopting at scale cloud provider native services and kubernetes native services it become even more relevant to keep and maintain skills on every piece of a automation operation framework one organization adopt.

Approaching cloud computing seem simple as technology services access and readiness hidden backbone complexity of implementing such platforms. To adopt and leverage at maximum benefits and to scale efficiently do not underestimate the relevance of define your principles of cloud foundation and governance. This should include all relevant aspects of a desired ITOps model, especially when automation, platform engineering and operations are core to this.