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Most Azure estates aren’t broken.

They’re just badly designed.

The result:

  • Cost more than they should

  • Become harder to secure over time

  • Drift away from the original architecture

  • Depend on workarounds instead of design

‍This isn’t a tooling problem.

‍It’s an architecture and operating model problem.

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