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Platform engineering· 5 min·
Why "cloud first" isn't enough in health and social care
Cloud realism is an architecture choice driven by purpose, risk and accountability — not ideology. Health and social care contexts demand exactly this.
Cloud first is too narrow a claim
In health and social care environments, the decision isn’t cloud or not. It’s which workloads, on what terms, in which cloud, when, and with what exit path.
Managed optionality
A good architecture keeps choice where it costs the most to lose it — data residency, integration handling, identity and access management.
Takeaway
A cloud strategy isn’t a platform slide. It’s an operating model that survives the choices you haven’t made yet.