visibility and control in the cloud

Visibility and Control in the Cloud:

How to get your boss comfortable with AWS

AGENDA

Why are organisations moving to AWS?

What it takes to maximise the Cloud opportunity

The AWS Adoption Journey

The 5 steps to achieving organisation-wide visibility and control of AWS

How does CloudMGR help?

Why Visibility and Control are essential for maximising the benefits of AWS

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Cost Savings

SpeedAgility

The right choice of Cloud

Visibility and Control

EfficiencyInnovation

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THE AWS ADOPTION JOURNEY

Visibility & Control

Develop a visibility framework

Move culture from CAPEX to OPEX

Create a governance structure

Build self service capability

Tap into the partner ecosystem

5 REQUIREMENTS FOR VISIBILITY AND CONTROL

DEVELOP A VISIBILITY FRAMEWORK

What’s actually running?

Use tools to bring visibility to Cloud consumption:• AWS Console• AWS API• Third party billing and cost

management tools

Standardise which services are used so that business units can build on and adapt them

Control Shadow IT

1

TAP INTO THE PARTNER ECOSYSTEM

Use partner tools to simplify:• Billing and cost

management• Setting up a self service

portal• Performing optimisation

tasks

2Technology Partners

Leverage the consulting partner network to:• Perform migration tasks• Develop governance

practices• Outsource service

management

Consulting Partners

MOVE FROM A CAPEX TO OPEX CULTURE3

CAPEX has been the main business budgeting mechanism for IT

OPEX requires a change in thinking from IT and Finance:

• Comfort with distributed access • Resource responsibility beyond IT• Avoid “out of sight, out of mind” thinking

CREATE A GOVERNANCE STRUCTURE4Maintain compliance with best practices, corporate governance requirements and security by corporate users and service providers:• Develop a usage and control policy• Control risk with Cloud governance • Manage access and permissions• Review compliance via regular audits

BUILD SELF SERVICE CAPABILITY5Give teams controlled access to manage their own resources:• On demand access• Automation tools• Cost control mechanisms

Self services gives teams the agility to experiment and be innovative

Develop a visibility framework

HOW DOES CLOUDMGR HELP?

Create a central control

Dashboard

Move from CAPEX to OPEX culture

HOW DOES CLOUDMGR HELP?

Chargebacks and Cost Centers

Build self service capability

HOW DOES CLOUDMGR HELP?

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Craig DevesonCEO, CloudMGR

+ 1 415 375 9797 craig@cloudmgr.com