Moving workloads to Azure looks clean on a project plan. Pick a date, migrate the servers, save money on infrastructure. That's the pitch. Then reality sets in. Projects budgeted for three months stretch into nine. Costs go up instead of down. And somehow the cloud environment ends up more fragile than the on-premises system it was supposed to replace. I've seen this pattern more times than I'd like. The good news? Every single one of these failures is predictable and preventable. Here are the s