Rational Decision-making

As an individual, you are free to make emotional decisions. You can decide to evict some software product from your laptop because you don’t like the vendor’s nationality or stance on today’s hot-button social issue. As an IT professional, you can even set up an open source solution that does almost the same (though invariably with worse UX) in a few days.

But as an IT leader, you are expected to make rational decisions. That’s why you don’t throw out all your Amazon, Microsoft, or Google Cloud on a whim because you are unhappy with U.S. policy. The rational choice is to minimize your risk. That means building new systems outside U.S. clouds so you don’t add to your problems. And migrating away from disfavoured platforms in an orderly, cost-effective manner.

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