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Choosing a cloud deployment posture requires gathering requirements across nine axes including compliance, residency, latency, and operational maturity before evaluating providers. This requirements-first method applies hard filters to eliminate non-starters and scores remaining options on tradeoffs and exit costs.

Requirements-first cloud decisioning applies hard filters to tenant isolation and compliance constraints as eliminators, then scores provider postures on tradeoffs, lock-in, and exit costs. This method prevents architecture-by-brochure by defining the logical architecture in capability language before selecting a provider.

Provider-neutral architecture shaping defines the logical architecture in capability language to ensure the cloud decision is driven by real constraints rather than vendor products. This allows hard filters and scored tradeoffs to be applied effectively before any provider service mapping occurs.

Defining logical architecture in capability language before provider service mapping ensures the cloud decision is based on real constraints. This prevents architecture-by-brochure by applying hard filters to compliance and residency requirements, reducing costly rework and defensible provider selection.

Managed versus self-hosted guidance evaluates each capability against your operational maturity to decide the deployment posture. It explicitly names the reason for choosing managed services or self-hosting and identifies the operational bill accepted for maintaining that specific capability.