Avoiding Amex Armageddon with unlimited budgets
The term Amex Armageddon will not be familiar to you. It's a term I use when I see companies starting off in the public cloud. Very often, companies, even big ones, begin deploying resources in the public cloud without a plan. Someone simply opens an account, gets a subscription, fills in some credit card details, and starts. Often, the resources go unmonitored and don't adhere to the organization mandates, more commonly known as shadow IT. That's alright if you're a developer who wants to try out things on a Saturday afternoon, but it's certainly not OK if you're working for a company. It's the reason why Azure, AWS, and GCP have developed Cloud Adoption Frameworks (CAFs).
If you're moving a company to a public cloud, you're basically building a data center in Azure, AWS, GCP, or any other cloud. The only difference is that this data center is completely software-defined. But as with a...
