Executive Assessment

Workload Venue Assessment

Best Venue For Your Workload. Complete this structured executive self-assessment to receive an immediate maturity score, classification and recommended next steps.

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Answer from what you can support. Use Unknown / not assessed when you cannot judge a control. Choose a known gap only when you know the practice is absent or ineffective.

All questions must be answered. An overall score requires at least 80% known answers and at least 60% known answers in every section. The result describes this self-reported profile; it is not an audit, certification or probability of an incident.

Current Environment

Current Environment

1. How would you describe your current environment?
2. How well are cloud provider selection and dependencies governed?
3. Do you maintain a documented workload inventory?
4. Do you classify workloads by criticality?
5. Do you maintain a workload placement strategy?
Technology Economics

Technology Economics

6. Can you accurately attribute cloud costs to business units?
7. Do you operate a FinOps practice?
8. Do you regularly review workload economics?
9. Have you evaluated cloud repatriation opportunities?
10. Do you understand the cost impact of vendor lock-in?
Sovereignty & Governance

Sovereignty & Governance

11. Do you know which jurisdictions govern your critical workloads?
12. Do you have formal data residency requirements?
13. Do you evaluate access control from a sovereignty perspective?
14. Can critical workloads be recovered independently of a provider?
15. Do you assess recoverability as part of technology governance?
AI Readiness

AI Readiness

16. How well is your decision to use or not use AI justified?
17. Do you have AI governance policies?
18. Is your data estate AI-ready?
19. Have you assessed AI infrastructure requirements?
20. Have you evaluated AI workload venue requirements?
Capability & Operations

Capability & Operations

21. Do you have internal cloud architecture capability?
22. Do you have documented governance processes?
23. Do executive stakeholders participate in workload decisions?
24. Do you maintain technology roadmaps?
25. Do you regularly reassess workload placement?