Even as cloud spend is set to grow at a CAGR of 16.9% and surpass $1.3 trillion by 2025, the transformation journey is riddled with challenges, such as security, governance, compliance, economics, and resourcing. A cloud center of excellence (CoE) in an enterprise can make a big difference in the return on cloud investments. Cloud CoE adoption has increased from 69% in 2017 to 82% in 2021, demonstrating its role in value creation. To work effectively, CoE transformation must rest on four key pillars — innovation, advocacy, scale, and governance — that can accelerate cloud adoption throughout a…