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Marc Smith

OPERATIONS · CLOUD · LEADERSHIP

The cloud is easy to enter. It is harder to operate well.

Guidance for governable platforms, dependable day-two operations, security, automation, and recovery across Azure and Google Cloud.

“Every cloud service becomes an operations service the moment a business depends on it.”

The operating stack

  • Platform foundation: identity, hierarchy, network, policy, naming, and tagging.
  • Day-two operations: monitoring, lifecycle, backup, recovery, and incident response.
  • Security by path: paved roads that make the safe action repeatable.
  • Connected architecture: dependencies, traffic paths, data movement, and failure domains.