A lot of organizations are looking to improve the way their teams build on top of clouds by assembling their own preferred set of cloud components into an infrastructure platform. This allows product teams work with a consistent and curated set of services, rather than having to figure it out on their own. Poppy Rowse and Chris Shepherd have worked with several of these teams and put together some guidelines on how to do this successfully. They begin by outlining how to create a strategy for such a platform.

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