November 13, 2014 | Las Vegas, NV

Mike Davis, SAS

The Evolution of Amazon Web Services at SAS

Transformation of how SAS consumes, manages, and governs the AWS ecosystem

What you will learn

Lessons, trials, and pitfalls encountered during the ongoing journey

Leader in business analytics software and services

HQ in Cary, NC

Founded in 1976

Revenue of $3 billion

~13,700 employees

Customers in 137 countries

Mike Davis

Cloud architect

20+ years in IT

AWS Certified Solutions Architect (pending)

AWS Certified Sysops Administrator (pending)

Architect, evangelist, advocate

“It’s Complicated”

Global production delivery

Development platform

Partner

Independent software vendor

Important strategic direction for SAS

Rogue

• “The ugly”

• No controls

• Personal / corporate credit cards

Trusted

• “The bad”

• Some controls

• Consolidated billing

Governed

• “The good”

• Managed, well documented, consistent AWS ecosystem with “guard rails”

• Detailed expenses by user and cost optimization

Rogue

• 4-5 years ago

• Users independent

• Wild Wild West

Trusted

• 2-3 years ago

• Secondary job for IT resources

• Recommendations

Governed

• 1 year ago

• Dedicated department

• Guardrails

Environment architecture, security, and policies

Expense optimization, visibility, and analytics

Knowledge and resources

Rogue

• Security? We don’t need no stinkin’ security.

• Ad-hoc usage & designs

• Too much individual discretion

Trusted

• Limited change

• Growth to 60+ separate business-level accounts; shared IDs

• Basic advice and recommendations

Governed

• Standardized accounts; AWS Direct Connect

• Federation with corporate identity management

• Roles and group policies mapped to business requirements

• Applications core to the business

• Common services leveraged across companyIT

• Development and test for product pipelineResearch and Development

• Enterprise customer-specific solutionsSAS Cloud Analytics

• Proof of concepts / Proof of Value

• Alliance effortsProfessional services

• Cloud delivered servicesSAS cloud solutions

Consolidated Billing Account

IT R&D SCA PSD SASaaS

Groups Policies

Federated Identity Broker

RolesPolicies

IAM

Groups

Users

Prod

Test

Dev

Sandbox

Secure

Rogue

• Un-optimized

• Visibility only at department financial level

• Monthly expenses

Trusted

• Consolidated Billing

• Explore & implement tools for reporting and tracking

• Insight into account usage and patterns

Governed

• Engage in Amazon programs for savings

• Leverage multiple billing tools, tags for comprehensive reporting

• Create IT policies for off-hour utilization

Rogue

• LMGTFY

• Tribal knowledge

• No one to fix things

Trusted

• Established relationship with Amazon account team

• Business-level support on revenue generating accounts

• Common clearing house of cross-enterprise projects

Governed

• Regular cadence meetings

• Enterprise-level support; Amazon Advisory Services

• Common documentation repository; on-site training

Enable Trust Guide

Effective Efficient

Cloud Delivery

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