This session aims to enhance your comprehension of the principles and practices necessary to fully realize the potential of cloud computing. The cloud offers numerous advantages, including pay-per-use, business agility, resiliency with geo fail-over, self-healing, and improved security. However, it is often challenging for organizations and application teams to take full advantage of these promises. This session will put you on the path to achieving more of that potential.

We will cover some aspects of architecting for the cloud and the approach to solutions that embrace cloud excellence! We will discuss some real-life scenarios where one path was chosen, based on the knowledge at hand, with severe consequences. We will also discuss the critical nature of having a strong cloud strategy aligned with business and IT both, and we will connect that to the all-important focus on organizational change and cloud skills acquisition. By the end of this session, you will have a broader understanding of advanced Azure success topics and a sense of direction toward those promises of cloud computing that will make your cloud even greater than it is today.

This session is presented by an Architect who has been with the Cloud since the dawn of the cloud and who has helped his customers make their cloud better for countless teams and applications – “make it easy to do the right thing”, is my professional motto.

This is a session summary from the material of my tutorial with the same name. The content is based on experience in the filed helping customers realize the promises of the cloud - since the cloud was created. I _know_ what the problems are and the pinch-points that keep companies from cloud mastery.