Many organizations running hybrid environments – partially on-prem but also in Azure – treat it as stable architecture, rather than what is actually the case: a migration that’s in progress.

Hybrid works. It also comes with costs, which pure cloud or fully-modernized on-prem environments do not. These include complexity in identity management and inconsistent policy enforcement across environments.

Those who use hybrid effectively tend to have a clear roadmap of what they will do next. Those that struggle tend to use hybrid because they’ve landed there after an incomplete migration without a plan for what happens next.

Hybrid operation is valid. It’s important to ask whether this is intentional or simply where the last migration ended.

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