Elliott Leighton-Woodruff

Principal Architect at Synextra

Elliott has over a decade of experience in tech, specialising in Microsoft Azure, cloud architecture, and scalable solutions. With a background in professional and managed services, he focuses on cloud platform engineering, DevOps, and automation—helping businesses adopt cloud-native technologies smoothly. What keeps him hooked? The constant evolution of tech. There’s always something new to learn, a fresh challenge to tackle, and better ways to do things. Outside of work, he loves traveling, exploring new cultures, and discovering great food along the way.

Articles by Elliott Leighton-Woodruff

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Elliott Leighton-Woodruff

The Future is Quantum: Are We Ready?

Quantum computing still feels like science fiction—but it's real, it's weird, and it's inching...

discover smarter cloud migration strategies

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Elliott Leighton-Woodruff

Smart Cloud Migration Strategies to Avoid Common Pitfalls

Azure should do more than shift your data. With the right cloud migration strategies, it can boost...

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Elliott Leighton-Woodruff

New Rules for Azure DevOps: How to Set Up Conditional Access

From 28 July 2025, Azure DevOps drops ARM for auth. Conditional Access policies targeting ARM...

Elliott Leighton-Woodruff

Azure Quota Groups Explained: Less Admin, More Control

What Are Azure Quota Groups?

Why Does This Matter?

How Does It Work?

Where...

Importing Azure Resources into Terraform

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Elliott Leighton-Woodruff

How to Import Azure Resources into Terraform

Struggling with unmanaged Azure resources? Here’s how to import them into Terraform state and get...

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Elliott Leighton-Woodruff

ClickOps or IaC: The Azure Admin’s Dilemma

ClickOps: Fast, Visual, and Sometimes Irresistible

Infrastructure as Code: The Power of...

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Elliott Leighton-Woodruff

Smarter Routing in Azure: Route-Maps for Virtual WAN

Route-maps for Azure Virtual WAN are now GA—finally giving you real control over BGP route ads and...

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Elliott Leighton-Woodruff

Is Azure DevCenter the Best Way to Run Private DevOps Agents?

Azure DevCenter aims to simplify dev infra but can it improve self-hosted Azure DevOps agents too?

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Elliott Leighton-Woodruff

Scaling Securely: How Platform Engineering Supports Developer Velocity

Developers want speed. Ops needs stability. Platform Ops delivers both. Check out our webinar...

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