What you'll learn

As AI demand surges, cloud teams face a trap: growth expectations are pressuring them to scale, spend, and specialize based on signals they can’t trust. In this course, The Forecast: Planning Cloud Strategy in an AI Demand Shock Cycle, you'll gain the ability to assess how AI growth expectations can distort cloud planning. First, you'll analyze how AI demand pressures teams into premature scaling or platform expansion. Next, you'll examine why durable cloud foundations provide a stronger planning basis than short-lived demand signals. Finally, you'll evaluate how cloud leaders can prepare for AI growth without overcommitting resources. When you're finished with this course, you'll have the knowledge and vocabulary of cloud strategy under demand uncertainty needed to plan for AI growth without letting short-term signals distort sound decisions.