It is critical that your cloud program gets off to a great start and delivers business value quickly, as this new IT endeavour will have high visibility across the business. In this session you will learn about the capabilities and activities needed to be able to host production enterprise applications within the AWS cloud within your first 90 days.
Speaker: Louise Stigwood, Enterprise Account Manager, Amazon Web Services
4. Mark Cohen, CTO at Domain, explained that one of the major
benefits of cloud computing is that it lowers the cost of failure,
to the extent that small trials which don’t work are instead
characterised as experiments. This, in turn, fuels innovation
efforts. He said Domain has moved from one release every three
weeks, to an average release-to-production of 60 software
updates per week. While these, he acknowledged, were “very
small incremental pieces” it did point to a more innovative culture.
5. Elements of a Successful Journey
Executive
Sponsorship
Cloud-First
Strategy
Experiment
Hybrid
Operations
Organisational
Change
Program ROI
& Plan
Align on business requirements; bring all stakeholders with you
Validate proof points, define architectures, patterns, governance;
measure, monitor, iterate
Provide centralised expertise; guide decentralised innovations, publish
guidance and guard rails for how to adopt cloud successfully
Define & manage business change strategy including policies, processes, and
economics; provide training
Plan build and/or migration of applications, TCO/ROI benefit analysis,
iterate and validate assumptions
Create your vision; incentivise team members to follow your lead
Education
Train and educate all staff on cloud, both technical and
non-technical teams
6. Elements of a Successful Journey
Executive
Sponsorship
Cloud-First
Strategy
Experiment
Hybrid
Operations
Organisational
Change
Program ROI
& Plan
Align on business requirements; bring all stakeholders with you
Validate proof points, define architectures, patterns, governance;
measure, monitor, iterate
Provide centralised expertise; guide decentralised innovations, publish
guidance and guard rails for how to adopt cloud successfully
Define & manage business change strategy including policies, processes, and
economics; provide training
Plan build and/or migration of applications, TCO/ROI benefit
analysis, iterate and validate assumptions
Create your vision; incentivise team members to follow your lead
Education
Train and educate all staff on cloud, both technical and
non-technical teams
8. Cost
Reduction
Acquisitions
or Divestitures
Large scale compute
intensive workloads
Facility or Real-estate
decisions
Colocation
or outsourcing
contract changes
Data Center
Consolidation
Agility/Dev
Productivity
Common Factors for Cloud Adoption
Digital
Transformation
9. 39% of IT projects are delivered
on time and on budget
…and $250 million for every
billion spent on these projects
are wasted.
Source: CIO Magazine. http://www.cio.com.au/article/582055/why-half-your-projects-will-fail-year/
11. • Engage your Account Team
• Engage a partner
• Identify AWS Champion
• Account Structure
• Set up a VPC (Virtual Private
Cloud)
• Organise Telco links
• Make use of AWS Tools
− AWSConfig + Config rules
− CloudTrail
− Set up IAM
− Trusted advisor
• Tagging
• Compliance certifications
• Security policy
Critical Enabling Activities, First 30 Days.
15. Cloud Centre of Excellence
Architecture
Operations
ServerTeam
StorageTeam
NetworkTeam
DatabaseTeam
PlatformTeam
Middleware
Desk/Colab
Mgmt&Tools
App 1 App 2 App 3
Business Unit 1 Business Unit 2
IT Shared Services
Security
CCoE
Ops./MSP
Tools &
Automation
Mode 2 IT
18. Application
Migration
Ensure they
are Automated
& HA
Data migration
Test and
optimise
Create a
Scrum
Board
Engage your
TAM and
Account
Team
Build a POC
Ensure they
are
Automated &
HA
Data
migration
Test and
optimise
Build a
monitoring
Environment
Limit each foundational step to a sprint
Refactor early to mitigate risks
Foster an environment of continuous Feedback
Results &
Learnings
Move from POC
into App’s
Cloud transformation strategy
Rinse &
Repeat
19. Migrate
Optimise
Run
Using Cloud to drive cost out of IT – Bottom line focus
Migrate
Optimise
Run
Migrate
Optimise
Run
Migrate
Optimise
Run
Cost-savings vs. Innovation ROI
20. First 90 Days on a Page
Create Cloud
‘Minimum Viable
product’
Create ‘Cloud
Centre of
Excellence’
Get Hero Workload, run a
Proof-of-Concept and get
Early adopters onto platform
ASAP
Iterative
development
Use continuous feedback
and cycles of learning to
develop MVP
Tiger team of IT and
business SMEs to plan,
develop and build cloud
capability
Critical to delivering
value ASAP
Hold Cloud
Discovery
Workshop
AWS Account Team,
Executive Sponsor, Key
Business Stakeholders, IT
Leadership
Build out your initial
cloud capability
Create Cloud
Operations
Model, Business
Case & Roadmap• Use the AWS CAF to
guide your planning
• Understand Business
Drivers, expected
outcomes and current
environment
• Overview of AWS
services & identification
of POC workloads
• Identify AWS services
and partners to
accelerate adoption
• Roadmap to establishing
AWS cloud foundation
• Creates and drives
a compelling vision
and business case
for the adoption
and use of cloud
capabilities
• Minimal set of
AWS capabilities
required to
deliver clear
business value
• Creation of the
Cloud Operating
Model, Business
Case and
Transformation
Roadmap
Plan &
Don’t
forget
your
critical
enablers
21. Three Things…
1. Understand the Why and Develop your Plan,
use the AWS CAF to Guide your Journey
2. Action your Critical Enablers
3. Pick a Hero Workload, Experiment & Iterate