Choose a deliberate center of gravity.
An archetype is a starting hypothesis. The work is to make its decision rights, delivery boundaries and known trade-offs explicit.
Centralized CCoE
A central team concentrates governance, architecture and enablement to establish consistency and accelerate early maturity.
Federated governance
A small central core defines minimum guardrails while capable platform and product teams make bounded local decisions.
Hub-and-spoke cloud operating model
A central governance and platform hub provides common guardrails and services while domain spokes retain workload outcomes and bounded delivery authority.
Platform-product operating model
Reusable cloud capabilities are managed as internal products with named consumers, outcome roadmaps, engineering ownership and measurable service performance.
MSP-led cloud operating model
An external provider executes substantial engineering or operations while a deliberate retained organization owns architecture, service, risk and commercial outcomes.