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Avoiding Bad Decisions in Your Cloud Strategy

Avoiding Bad Decisions in Your Cloud Strategy

Whether you're migrating an existing application to the cloud or building a cloud-native application from scratch, it's best to prepare yourself before you start to avoid common mistakes along the way. In this course, instructor Lee Atchison explores some of the biggest mistakes people make when utilizing the cloud to meet their application needs.

Learn how to identify and successfully avoid common cloud pitfalls, such as misunderstanding security requirements, poorly defining roles, mismanaging cost, underestimating cloud capabilities, building a weak cloud team, and much more. Gather insights and best practices on how to do the opposite, thinking long term, making decisions dynamically, and defining your success criteria up front. By the end of this course, you'll be ready to shift your mindset and expertise to create a cloud success story within your organization.

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  • Issuing Organization: LinkedIn Learning
  • Issue Date: March 8, 2025
  • Credential ID: 694b5cd674aaa3f2edcc2d5cf2e2a2be5aa12e194bfbf9f58db37142d9bdaa3a
  • Credential URL: Course Completed

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Avoiding Bad Decisions in Your Cloud Strategy

Avoiding Bad Decisions in Your Cloud Strategy

Instructor Lee Atchison explores some of the biggest mistakes people make when utilizing the cloud to meet their application needs. Learn how to identify and successfully avoid common cloud pitfalls, such as misunderstanding security requirements.

Last Updated: March 22, 2026

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Celebrating over 25 years in the entertainment industry, Shefik held senior-level positions at many Fortune 500 companies and celebrated brands, including IBM, NBCUniversal, and MTV World. He currently serves as a Technical Lead at NBCUniversal. His work was featured in television broadcasts and video productions for TIME, The Washington Center, "Unsung" (TV One), and Broadway World. He is currently the Executive Producer and Host of the nationally syndicated radio show "Shefik presents Invocation", which is broadcast on over 20 terrestrial radio stations and frequencies throughout the United States, as well as the internationally distributed video series of the same name via Prime Video and other notable outlets.