In digital trans­form­a­tions, many com­pan­ies are faced with the ques­tion of how they want to pos­i­tion them­selves for the future in order to expand and pro­mote their IT infra­struc­ture sus­tain­ably, scal­ably and at the right cost. Pro­cur­ing and oper­at­ing your own hard­ware for long-term, cost-effect­ive use requires sig­ni­fic­ant effort and sub­stan­tial upfront invest­ment in both the hard­ware and its install­a­tion. So why not pay only for what you truly need? At the same time, it’s essen­tial to address crit­ical con­cerns such as gov­ernance, secur­ity, resource alloc­a­tion, and logging/monitoring. That said, even Azure isn’t without its challenges—after all, not everything that glit­ters is gold.