Communications service providers (CSPs) are moving their IT workloads to the cloud in the ongoing drive to decrease operational costs, expedite deployment and vastly increase flexibility. They are still in the early stages of migration, but now that the benefits of cloud native operations are becoming more tangible, many operators are focusing on a more wide-reaching strategy for telco cloud. How they execute these strategies will heavily impact their competitive abilities for at least the next decade. This report looks at the emerging best practices and key considerations of CSPs at the cutting edge, and what this technological paradigm shift means for telco transformation.