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Cloud Vision & Strategy

Those who begin cloud transformation without a strategy buy new costs — those who begin with a strategy buy future capability. Here you establish the difference.

What this chapter does for you

Section titled “What this chapter does for you”

Cloud transformation rarely fails because of technology. It fails because of missing strategic clarity: why are we transforming? What do we want to be able to do in five years that we cannot do today? Which workloads must absolutely be run with full sovereignty?

This chapter gives you the tools to answer these questions binding with your board, your CIO staff and your business units — before the first technical decision is made.

Strategic North Star

Formulate a cloud vision that orients investment decisions, architecture directions and cultural change for the next five to ten years.

Sovereignty Profile

Understand which of your workloads fall under German data protection law, require Cloud Act immunity or must fulfil industry-specific regulations.

Well-Founded Provider Selection

Make the decision between STACKIT and US Hyperscalers based on a transparent, traceable evaluation matrix — not based on marketing.

Governance Structure

Establish the Cloud Strategy Board as a decision-making body that protects and develops the cloud vision across organisational boundaries.

The difference between migration and transformation

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Moving infrastructure to the cloud is migration. Understanding how your organisation becomes faster, more resilient and more competitive through it — that is transformation. Only transformation generates lasting business value.

Cloud Vision Overview

Connection to the Migration Framework

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This chapter establishes the strategic framework. The operational implementation — discovery, workload assessment, migration waves — is described in the STACKIT Migration Framework. Advisory comes first: without an adopted cloud vision the Migration Framework lacks its mandate.

Your next step

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  1. Read North Star & Cloud Goals — the foundation for all further decisions.
  2. Determine your Sovereignty Profile — which workloads absolutely require German cloud?
  3. Complete the Provider Selection with a structured process.
  4. Derive your Business Case from the strategy.