Course Overview
This course focuses on improving Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) in a multi-cloud environment. It explores how workload placement, data gravity, tooling, governance, automation, and people skills impact TCO. The course discusses strategies for optimizing TCO, including creating an architecture cost analysis, selecting cloud-agnostic tools, and developing a single enterprise governance framework. It also examines the importance of considering data gravity, network egress costs, and data access latency when making decisions about workload placement and cloud services. Additionally, the course covers the impact of expanding to multi-cloud on people and skills TCO, and how to optimize skills for multi-cloud environments. By the end of the course, learners will be able to describe how workload placement and data gravity influence TCO, recognize how tooling, governance, and automation choices impact TCO, and understand how to optimize people and their skills for multi-cloud environments.