About Cloudorial
Cloudorial is a technical publication about the Microsoft cloud, written by people who run it in production. We cover Azure architecture, AI engineering, DevOps, security, networking, and Microsoft 365 — with the depth that real decisions require.
Every article is written from practice, not press releases. If we recommend a pattern, we’ve deployed it. If we warn about a failure mode, we’ve been paged for it.
What we believe
- Depth over volume. One thorough article beats ten shallow ones.
- Evidence over opinion. Numbers, configs, and repos — not vibes.
- Honest trade-offs. Every architecture is a compromise; we name them.
Founder

Lakshan Umesh
Cloud Solutions Architect · Microsoft MVP
Cloudorial was founded by Lakshan Umesh, a Cloud Solutions Architect and Microsoft MVP with over 11 years in IT and 6+ years designing cloud infrastructure and security solutions on Azure. A Microsoft Certified Trainer holding 14+ certifications, he works across the platform — from identity and access management with Microsoft Entra ID to DevOps, Terraform, AKS, and .NET — and shares what production actually teaches.
The people behind Cloudorial
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