4 questions CIOs are asking about cloud computing

In practical terms, this means equipping your application engineers to develop their own infrastructure. With the ability to implement and maintain infrastructure as code, developers no longer need to rely or wait on a DevOps engineer or team to build out what they need right now.

In fact, if you architect your cloud infrastructure well, you no longer need a dedicated DevOps team. Transition those engineers instead to a platform engineering team to pave the road to production, then empower your application engineers to innovate on that platform at ludicrous speed.

Cloud computing infrastructure isn’t automatically cheaper, simpler, or superior, but, if you do it right, it can power your company’s revolutionary potential.