Building with cloud

The foundations of a thoughtful cloud project.

A cloud project is a collection of decisions about applications, data, access and operations. Begin with the workload and its requirements.

Understand the workload

Describe who uses the application, when demand changes and which data it stores. These needs guide infrastructure choices.

Plan access and costs

Give each person and service the access they need. Set a budget, monitor usage and remove resources you no longer use.

Design for operations

Decide how updates, logs, backups and recovery will work. Test the recovery process rather than assuming a backup is enough.