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The Economically Architected Cloud

A practical guide to designing cloud environments with economic architecture embedded into strategy, workload placement, platform design, governance, resilience, commercial models, and engineering decisions.

About the Book

Cloud architecture decisions create long-term financial consequences. This book focuses on how organizations design cloud environments with economic accountability built into the architecture from the beginning.

The book connects cloud strategy, architecture, engineering, commercial decisions, governance, financial operations, and business value into one practical operating model.

It also addresses organizations that already operate in the cloud and need to correct structural cost, governance, allocation, resilience, and workload placement problems.

What the Book Covers

Cloud Economics Before Architecture
Workload Placement and Migration Economics
Cloud Provider Selection
Commercial Models and Contract Strategy
Organization and Ownership
Cloud Cost Data Foundations
Workload and Platform Economics
Network and Data Transfer Economics
Storage and Data Gravity
Resilience and Recovery Economics
Cost Allocation and Accountability
Budgeting and Forecasting
Commitment Strategy
Anomaly and Variance Management
Governance and Risk
Portfolio Value and Product Margin
Replatforming and Remediation
30-60-90 Day Implementation Plan

Supporting Resources

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