ABOUT
Hi, I’m Manoj Annavajjala.
I’m an enterprise AI architect and a governance-focused technology writer. azCloudOps.org is my personal journal and an open community for the A to Z of cloud operations and AI: what is changing, where it is heading, and what organizations should do about it.
What I do
I architect enterprise AI solutions, from agents and retrieval-augmented generation to the platforms and governance that let organizations run them safely at scale. My foundation is the Microsoft stack, Power Platform, Copilot Studio and Dynamics 365, and the question underneath all of my work is the same: how do you let people build with AI without losing control of the estate?
My writing translates official documentation and research into guidance an admin, architect or platform team can act on. That work now spans clouds and vendors, including Google’s Gemini and Agent Development Kit, Linux, and open-source agent tooling, because the architecture and governance problems of enterprise AI are the same on every cloud.
Why I started azCloudOps
Cloud and AI now change faster than most teams can read about them. Vendors announce, analysts summarize, and practitioners are left to work out what it means for the systems they actually run. I wanted one place to do that thinking in the open: part journal of what I am learning and building, part shared notebook with other people who operate cloud and AI for a living.
Every article here answers four questions: what it is, what changed, where it is heading, and what to do next. The journal is looser: experiments, notes from conferences, things I got wrong, and what I am reading.
Where I contribute
Writing
- powerplatformengineer.com: governance guidance for Power Platform, Copilot Studio and Dynamics 365
- LinkedIn articles and newsletter on enterprise AI governance
- A Medium series on building multi-agent systems with Gemini and Google ADK
Speaking
- TechCon365: Governing the Power Platform at Scale
- TechCon365: 5 Copilot Studio Mistakes Enterprises Make
- Community Summit Roadshow, Charlotte: 5 Copilot Studio Mistakes Enterprises Make (co-presented)
Projects
- EnterpriseAgentGuard: an experimental project for assessing and governing AI agents across platforms, from inventory and tool access to policy validation and monitoring. Early build, documented as I go in the journal.
- azCloudOps.org: this site, its articles, the journal and the community.
Books authored
- Architecting Enterprise AI: Decisions, Trade-offs, and RAG Systems That Survive Production. An architect’s guide to enterprise AI and RAG. Paperback and Kindle.
- Architecting Enterprise AI: A Practical Guide to RAG, Knowledge Architecture, Governance, Security, and Production AI. Paperback.
- The Open Tap: Unmetered AI Credits, Runaway Token Spend, and the Dam Every Enterprise Needs. Paperback.
SPEAKING
Sessions and talks
Conference sessions on Power Platform governance, Copilot Studio and enterprise AI. Organizers can use the abstracts below as submitted.
What you will find here
- Articles: sourced pieces on cloud operations and AI across Azure, AWS and Google Cloud.
- Journal: personal notes, experiments, conference takeaways and lessons learned.
- Community: how readers propose articles, suggest topics, report errors and comment.
How I write
- Every product claim links to a primary source.
- Preview features are marked as preview, and analysis is labeled as analysis.
- Articles carry a last-verified date and are corrected in place when things change.
- No sponsored content. Guest writers disclose their employer.
Views on this site are my own and do not represent any employer or client. azCloudOps.org is independent and not affiliated with or endorsed by Microsoft, Amazon Web Services or Google.
Connect
I am always happy to talk about governance, agents and the operating side of cloud. You can find me on LinkedIn, or reach me through powerplatformengineer.com.