The aim of this session is to demonstrate how an enterprise-ready Azure Data Platform can be set up from scratch in days instead of months. I will present the most important lessons I've learned over the last year while working on such an automation framework. I'll discuss failures, dead ends, drawn conclusions, and the approach we ultimately developed and successfully implemented.

During this one-hour session, I'll address, among other topics:
- Landing Zones, Cloud Adoption & Cloud Scale Analytics Frameworks - why should the 'Data people' also understand this stuff?
- Automation from day one & Everything as Code.
- Networking, Security, Monitoring.
- Why a bunch of accelerators work better than an out-of-the-box solution.
- Project timeline, proper analysis and collaboration with the client - the keys to success.