If your cloud environment feels like it was duct taped together during migration and never revisited, you are not alone. This session is a postmortem of the chaos left behind when phase two never happens.

We will explore why so many cloud migrations stall after phase one, and how the same problems from on prem environments are often lifted and shifted along with the workloads. The real issue is not usually the cloud itself. It is the lack of optimisation, structure, and platform maturity that follows.

Using real-world examples, we will cover:

- How rushed lift and shift projects led to technical debt and platform gaps
- Why cloud repatriation is trending
- The hidden cost of weak foundations
- Practical tools that help bring back control in Azure, including tag inheritance, budget alerts, policy as code, subscription vending, AzGovViz, and Cost Management
- How I generally approach the clean-up to stabilise and modernise broken cloud environments

This is a practical talk for Azure engineers and leads dealing with post-migration sprawl, technical debt, and environments that never matured. You will leave with tools and patterns to reduce chaos and restore structure without starting over.