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TCP #120: The Infrastructure Ownership Matrix For Platform And App Teams

A practical way to decide who can provision which AWS resources, under what conditions, and with whose approval.

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Amrut Patil
May 06, 2026
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Sunday’s issue named the problem: infrastructure provisioned without an ownership model creates reliability gaps, cost exposure, and audit risk.

This issue gives you the system.

The Infrastructure Ownership Matrix defines who can provision what, under what conditions, and who approves what changes. It replaces the informal agreements that break down as soon as a team grows or a new engineer joins.

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