Cloud platforms

The platforms on which software is built, secured and operated.

Structured learning for Azure, Google Cloud and Nais, alongside an architectural guide to Altinn and selected cloud-native reference points.

Cloud platforms deserve a dedicated area because platform decisions affect architecture, security, cost, observability and how solutions can evolve. Azure remains a detailed knowledge base. Google Cloud and Nais now form a connected learning journey: first understand the cloud primitives, then learn which decisions Nais turns into a safer, simpler developer contract.

Altinn remains a separate deep dive because it represents a different kind of Norwegian platform: shared capabilities for building and operating public digital services. CNCF is included as the open ecosystem behind many of the cloud-native ideas used across these platforms.

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Principles for this area

Identity first

Identity, least privilege and explicit control planes are the foundation of secure cloud adoption.

Capabilities before product names

Begin with requirements for availability, data, security, performance and operations—then choose the service.

Automate the platform

Infrastructure as code, policy, observability and repeatable pipelines reduce configuration drift.