Cloud Governance: The 6 Areas Most Platforms Get Wrong

A cloud architecture review is how I get a fast, honest read on where a platform actually stands before I have read every runbook or spoken to every team. In this video I walk through the 6 areas I check first - the ones where the gap between what a team thinks is true and what is actually true tends to be biggest. If you are a CTO, platform lead, or engineering director, the question is not whether gaps like these exist. It is which ones, and how long they have been quietly compounding. This cloud architecture review covers identity and access, infrastructure as code, observability, cost management, the security baseline, and the cloud governance and operating model that decide whether any of it improves. For each area you will see what healthy looks like and the early signs that something is silently broken. The same 6 areas come from the structured checklist I use on real engagements: 11 sections, 55 questions, scored 1 to 4 from missing to optimised. It tells you more about platform health in 30 minutes than a week of documentation review. 🔗 LINKS Free Cloud Platform Readiness Checklist (name + email): https://preview.mailerlite.io/forms/2... Pro checklist (deeper scoring + benchmarking notes): https://lidtech.lemonsqueezy.com/chec... Cloud Platform Review (90-min session, founding rate, July only): https://calendly.com/oskar-lidtech/in... More on Lidtech:   / lidtech   ⏱️ TIMESTAMPS 0:00 Intro and the Visibility Gap 1:20 Five Questions for CTOs 2:45 Area 1: Identity and Access Control 4:05 Area 2: Infrastructure as Code and Drift 5:20 Area 3: Observability and Monitoring 6:40 Area 4: Cost Management and Tagging 7:55 Area 5: Security Baseline and Exposure 9:10 Area 6: Operating Model and Ownership 10:15 Next Steps and Free Checklist 👍 ENJOYED THIS? Subscribe for practical cloud architecture, governance, and platform delivery - structure, not hype. #cloudplatform #cloudarchitecture #platformengineering