What risks arose from external edits to managed infrastructure?

This episode features a deep dive into Occidental Petroleum’s cloud migration journey, emphasizing automation and scalability. Brian Moore, a Cloud Architect at Occidental Petroleum, discusses how they used Terraform and AFT to streamline account provisioning, manage complex network architectures, and improve operational efficiency. The conversation reveals lessons on organizational change, the importance of source-controlled infrastructure, and how automation tools like Terraform and Control Tower can transform traditional IT workflows into agile, resilient systems.