Maximilian Walz

In many places, cloud costs have spiraled out of control. Auto-scaling runs rampant, multi-cloud environments grow without adequate oversight, and it’s often unclear who is responsible for which resources. At the same time, the question of how dependent companies want to be on individual cloud providers, technologies, and operating models is coming up more and more frequently. What was originally intended as a driver of innovation, growth, and flexibility has become a financial and strategic black box for many companies. In this masterclass, we’re deliberately skipping tool demos. Instead, we’ll tell the stories of three European companies: a leading global industrial firm, a chemical company, and a streaming provider. Together with T-Systems’ Cloud Professional Services, they have transformed their cloud spending from a cost factor that was difficult to control into a strategically manageable lever for success—with greater transparency, clear governance, and a more conscious approach to technological dependencies and digital sovereignty.