Ed Berwick

Practical Azure, FinOps and Cloud Transformation

Sharing lessons learned from more than twenty years of designing, building and operating enterprise technology.

Helping organisations modernise securely, operate efficiently and maximise the value of their cloud investments.

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Retirement: Azure Linux with OS Guard in Azure Kubernetes Service

Retirements · Today

Public Preview: Agentless migration of on-premises SMB file shares to Azure Files (SMB)

Migration · Today

Generally Available: TLS/SSL certificate and end-to-end TLS encryption support for Azure Functions Flex Consumption

Compute · Yesterday

Generally Available: Azure Copilot Troubleshooting Agent

Management and governance · Yesterday

Reading: FinOps Foundation FOCUS 1.1 spec

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Building: a landing zone reference for regulated workloads

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Aiming for: Microsoft MVP nomination, 2026

Goal

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Where I focus

Five areas that show up in almost every engagement, in some order.

Azure & cloud transformation
Designing and evolving cloud platforms that balance agility, governance, security and cost.
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FinOps
Maximising the value of cloud investment, not just reducing the bill.
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Platform engineering
Repeatable, scalable platforms through automation and infrastructure as code.
topic:platform
Managed services
Lessons from delivering and operating enterprise-scale environments at real scale.
topic:operations
Technology leadership
Building teams, setting technical strategy, and making the case for the boring, correct decision.
topic:leadership

Recent writing

Technical posts, opinions and the occasional rant. Photography lives on its own page.

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A matter of ROUTinE

Good practice hub and spoke

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Going on a Cloud Journey?

I recently wrote about how We are all getting FinOps wrong, and it got me thinking about the wider considerations of Cloud Adoption. Specifically some of my ...

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We're all getting FinOps wrong

Introduction

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Speaking & community

Working toward a Microsoft MVP nomination — one talk, one answered question at a time.

First session in the works

No talks listed yet — this is where user group sessions, conference slots and community contributions will land as they're booked.

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Azure Solutions Architect Expert Microsoft
Azure Administrator Associate Microsoft
Azure Virtual Desktop Specialty Microsoft