If you are completely successful in navigating the complex and competing priorities levied on every cloud computing solution, your efforts will fail unless a successful implementation follows. Although implementation is outside the scope of this solution design text, we would like to share with you the lessons we have learned in these early years of cloud computing architecting:
- To be a successful cloud solution architect, you need to obtain and maintain executive sponsorship. Make sure governance control points are built into the transition process (an example control point: ensure financial controls on pay-as-you-go elastic compute model do not result in runaway costs!).
- Analysis of an organization's application portfolio as a whole is key to efficiency and the breadth of value delivered by transitioning to a cloud platform....
