Cloud Centers of Excellence were supposed to save your cloud strategy—yet in most enterprises, they've become the single biggest bottleneck. In this video, David Linthicum takes a brutally honest look at why so many CCoEs have devolved into "Cloud Centers of No," strangling innovation while pretending to provide governance. We'll dissect how these committees burn time, money, and engineering talent with endless review boards, PDFs, and politics, all while claiming to be "best practice."

But this isn't just a rant; it's a blueprint. David lays out exactly how to blow up the gatekeeper model and rebuild your CCoE as a lean, product-focused cloud platform team that developers actually want to use. You'll learn how to replace manual approvals with automated guardrails, static standards with living golden paths, and ivory-tower architects with embedded, hands-on experts. If you suspect your CCoE is more theater than value, this video will give you the language, arguments, and patterns to force a reset—and turn cloud governance from a tax into a competitive advantage.