Cloud Infrastructure for AI Business
How managers choose a platform, govern complexity and evaluate infrastructure economics
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1. Cloud Infrastructure for AI Business
How managers choose a platform, govern complexity and evaluate infrastructure economics
2. Alexander Polomodov
Technical Director & Fellow, T-Technologies
Architecture and engineering R&D.
AI adoption in SDLC.
Focus: cloud platform choice.
3. Here cloud is a management choice
Options, criteria and regular governance
No basic recap — Cloud, IaaS/PaaS/SaaS — in notes.
We look like managers — Options, acceleration, risk.
We calculate economics — We keep the resource, hardware, payback and FinOps examples.
4. 01. Management frame
Before choosing technology, understand which speed, control and accountability the business is buying
5. Which decisions managers actually make
6. A platform portfolio beats one answer
7. Evaluate speed against control
8. 02. Migration as a business program
Move not servers, but the model of speed, risk, accountability and change governance
9. Migrate only for business pull
10. Choose migration depth for the goal
11. Executive anti-patterns
Migration without priority and owners.
Move itself beats speed/reliability/economics.
Unclear: on-call, changes, risk, bill.
Old delivery process in new cloud.
12. 03. Platform governability
Repeatable safe infrastructure change
13. IaC is management control
14. Kubernetes must earn its complexity
15. Responsibility model: platform, product, security, finance
16. 04. Money calculation example
Compare order of magnitude: cloud resources, buying a server and the payback point
17. Price per cloud resource unit
18. Cloud equivalent of a regular server
19. Cost of similar hardware
Catalog example
Dell PowerEdge R750: 24 physical cores.
64 GB RAM in base configuration.
Catalog price: from 566,050 ₽.
What is not included
noHDD: price disks separately.
No DC, power, network, licenses, ops.
Educational order-of-magnitude estimate.
20. Payback point and private cloud at scale
21. 05. FinOps and regular governance
Recurring accountability, forecast and team behavior
22. Cost drivers and expense allocation
23. FinOps loop: showback/chargeback, optimization, forecast
24. Unit economics instead of total invoice size
25. Final decision matrix
26. References and materials
Core sources
FinOps Foundation - FinOps Framework: finops.org/framework/
CNCF Kubernetes docs: kubernetes.io/docs/ · cncf.io
Cloud architecture frameworks.
Yandex Cloud pricing and Servermall R750.