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Align Cloud Decisions with Operating Models

Making cloud architecture recommendations requires balancing business realities and operating model gaps. This course will teach you how to turn cloud requirements into clear architecture decisions.

Advanced
56m

Created by Kevin James

Last Updated Jul 21, 2026

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Align Cloud Decisions with Operating Models

Making cloud architecture recommendations requires balancing business realities and operating model gaps. This course will teach you how to turn cloud requirements into clear architecture decisions.

Advanced
56m

Created by Kevin James

Last Updated Jul 21, 2026

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IT teams often operate reactively, spending too much time firefighting instead of improving systems, while unclear ownership creates delivery risks, support gaps, and unmanaged costs. In this course, Align Cloud Decisions with Operating Models, you'll gain the ability to turn business needs, risks, constraints, and operating realities into clear cloud architecture recommendations. First, you'll explore how to map cloud decisions to ownership and accountability. Next, you'll discover how to evaluate operating model constraints that shape cloud architecture decisions. Finally, you'll learn how to specify the decision and handoff expectations for a cloud recommendation. When you're finished with this course, you'll have the skills and knowledge of aligning cloud decisions with operating models needed to turn business needs, risks, constraints, and operating realities into clear cloud architecture recommendations.

Align Cloud Decisions with Operating Models
Advanced
56m
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Kevin James - Pluralsight course - Align Cloud Decisions with Operating Models
Kevin James
24 courses 4.1 author rating 44 ratings

As a seasoned technologist with over 30 years of wide-ranging expertise in information technology roles across diverse industries, Kevin is passionate about finding effective and economical solutions to business problems. His passion for teaching technical subjects allows him to have a particular style that imparts information yet teaches at the same time. He enjoys working with Linux, Unix and Windows Operating Systems and combined with a deep knowledge of software platforms as varied as Apache, MySQL, and others, has enabled him to successfully manage and maintain server infrastructures of all sizes, with his largest project encompassing over 800 servers across 4 continents. He believes in leveraging technology as a tool to make lives better and business flow more efficiently.

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