Cloud data platforms are not just warehouses with storage attached. They are operating environments for pipelines, models, permissions, deployments, metadata, cost, and trust.

This category is about designing and running reliable platforms on modern cloud stacks: warehouses, lakehouses, orchestration, infrastructure as code, environments, access patterns, CI/CD, observability, and cost-aware architecture.

The goal is simple: build platforms that scale without becoming impossible to understand, operate, or change.