Treat clouds like water, not a warehouse
When I first led cloud migrations, I made the mistake many do: We treated the cloud as a shinier data center. Costs ballooned, agility stalled and developers still had to ask permission just to experiment.
The shift came when we started treating cloud like water, a utility. Always available, always measurable, always flowing to where it’s needed. That mindset changed everything. Suddenly, the conversation wasn’t about capacity, it was about speed, portability and cost per unit of value.
This is the same principle that enabled India’s startups to scale fintech apps to a billion people. They didn’t build everything themselves. They leaned on India Stack, a set of digital identity, payments and document services available as APIs to anyone. Cloud became the rails, not the roadblock.
