“I am moving to the cloud. I can finish it off in a snap of time, everything is available there”. I hear a lot from the customers and leaderships. I cannot blame them because it is what every Cloud Service Providers are saying.
I tell them, “ only computing moved up in the sky and we call it Public Cloud”. If you observe it from the ground zero it is true that in many cases because we have not changed our mind set , and we are not prepared enough yet. To move our workload to public cloud we must change our mind set, know the public cloud and prepare.
It is important that we build a public cloud Eco-System for every companies especially if it is Public Cloud service provider. So be it Azure or AWS, they do not do everything for you but they give you multiple options like tools to do it yourself. You still need to think about the monitoring of middle-ware, Databases and applications, backup, disaster recovery, migrations etc. Nobody wants to run just OS on a VM and monitor and backup it up but their workload. They need to move their workloads which need to leverage many other services like those mentioned above.
It may not be possible to a single team to support everything because you need bring specialization as well. If you are part of large service organizations, it makes sense to make partnership with your existing traditional team to come up with cloud-native approach to extend their support to Cloud Platform. It would help them to up-skill and at the same time company can grow faster to support dynamic requirements from customers.
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