Customized Self-Service. End-To-End Automation. Cost Control. Secure & Compliant Hybrid Environments. Today's Enterprises are Building a Stronger Cloud With Scalr.
Scalr’s Enterprise Grade Cloud Management Platform is designed for enterprises deploying public and private cloud infrastructure at global scale. Our Organizational Model allows for highly efficient policy and role based controls for security and cost management, while delivering localized autonomy and maximum productivity for IT teams. The resulting ‘Federation of IT’ is core to Scalr’s product design mission.
2. Scalr’s Enterprise Grade Cloud Management Platform is designed for
enterprises deploying public and private cloud infrastructure at global
scale. Our Organizational Model allows for highly efficient policy and role
based controls for security and cost management, while delivering
localized autonomy and maximum productivity for IT teams. The resulting
‘Federation of IT’ is core to Scalr’s product design mission.
“Scalr is the only tool I know of that multiple businesses voluntarily signed up to use. Usually
they will shy away from any Corporate offering; it is a testament to what an amazing tool you
and your team have built. It was truly a pleasure working with the Scalr team and building out
the offering.”
Scalr Customer: Global Fortune 25 Conglomerate
The Hybrid Cloud Management Platform
for the Enterprise
3. To Deliver Safe, Responsible, and Cost-Effective
Self-Service, Scalr addresses 4 key areas
BUSINESS AGILITY
Drive productivity at scale with less
overhead to achieve faster
time to market
COST OPTIMIZATION & VISIBILITY
The ability to track, control,
assign and reduce costs
easily and at scale
SECURITY & COMPLIANCE
Encourage security best practices,
control access and privileges at scale
USER PRODUCTIVITY
Create highly productive users with
portable skills, who are able to leverage
the full potential of the cloud
4. Reconcile The Needs of All Enterprise Groups
END-USERS
Developers
QA Engineers
Sales Reps
Researchers
DevOps
...
MANAGERS
AND ADMINS
CIO
Cloud Architect
Security Admin
Finance
IT Admin
Team Leaders
...
Empower IT teams across the organization while maintaining
compliance and cloud best practices
5. Federation of IT Teams
IT teams gain autonomy and operational flexibility while maintaining corporate compliance and cloud best
practices
ENTERPRISE SCALR
CENTRAL IT
Central IT can enforce
compliance policies on OS
compatibility, Image
management, security, cost,
workload placement, and
quotas.
BUSINESS UNIT
Each BU/Department is
empowered to set additional
policies that align with their best
practices (i.e. lease management,
encryption, region, VPC/Subnet,
Security Groups, instance types
and more)
TEAMS
Teams enjoy improved productivity
with customized self-service and
considerable autonomy to deploy
and manage apps and
infrastructure within policy
boundaries.
6. Corporate
The Scalr Organizational Model
The Scalr Organizational Model
combines proactive and reactive policies
with a hierarchy that maps to your
organization's structure, making policy
enforcement easier and reports more
actionable.
Policies enforced at higher scopes are
inherited by the lower ones, greatly
reducing management overhead.
Other Cloud Management Solutions
provide a flat structure where all policies
are applied at the application layer,
which is inefficient to manage and does
not scale. Updates and changes, which
Gartner says takes up 90% of IT
operations effort, become intolerable.
Self-Service
Environments
Accounts
Manage
Accounts
Setup Cost Centers
LDAP/SAML
Authentication
3. DIGITAL
Manage Env 3a, 3b
Manage Teams
2. HEALTHCARE
Manage Env 2a
Manage Teams
1. OIL & GAS
Manage Env 1a, 1b
Manage Teams
Cost
Analytics
Policy
Enforcement
Farm 3
Farm 2
Farm 1
Env 1a
Role
Role
Role
Farm 3
Farm 2
Farm 1
Env 1b
Role
Role
Role
Farm 3
Farm 2
Farm 1
Env 2a
Role
Role
Role
Farm 3
Farm 2
Farm 1
Env 3a
Role
Role
Role
Farm 3
Farm 2
Farm 1
Env 3b
Role
Role
Role
7. Differentiated Self-Service
Self Service should not be limited to one type
of user. Scalr’s policy engine and role based
access controls (RBAC) allow administrators
to grant all users customized access to the
resources and controls needed for them to be
productive in their jobs.
Scalr provides a Service Catalog, Power
Console, and API, all with policy guardrails in
place. This allows users to not have to worry
about compliance or corporate policies and
focus on the things that matter to them.
Other solutions provide guardrails only on
basic user requests (Service Catalog). All
other requests either need to be supported as
one-off requests or subject to approvals or
Ops team fulfillment. This creates a lot of
operational overhead which results in a
massive productivity hit.
API
Cloud Policy Engine
Abstracted Applications
Farm 1 Farm 2 Farm 3 Farm 4 Farm 5
Self Service
Power Console Service Catalog Admin Dashboard
Access
Policy
Workload
Placement
Policy
Financial
Policy
Lifecycle
Policy
Integration
Policy
Auth
(LDAP/SAML)
8. Power Console
The Power Console is an advanced provisioning method for users who value operational flexibility. Within
policy guardrails, Power Users and Administrators can edit their application stacks, link their applications to
cloud services, configure automation and auto-scaling rules, and more. Advanced users get the autonomy they
need to move fast, while workloads inherit the policies set at higher management scopes.
Through the Power Console,
admins and advanced users can:
• Manage resources such as
images, storage, networks
• Set application lifecycle
policies
• Monitor workload health and
usage
• Build applications and
package them as items on
the Service Catalog
9. Service Catalog
The Service Catalog is a simple provisioning method for users who value ease of use. Each catalog item can
represent anything from a single machine or container, to a full application stack, complete with automation,
scaling and cloud services. Admins can determine to what level they want to abstract complexity from the user,
and what policies are enforced.
The Service catalog is the easiest way for users to quickly get what they need, while all required standards are
maintained.
10. Policy Engine
The Scalr Policy Engine creates conditional policy
guardrails around placement, security, access and
resource usage. Scalr Policies adhere to The
Organizational Model, which means admins can
configure a policy at a higher scope of management,
and enforce it on all relevant cloud environments.
The Policy Engine centralizes policy definition and
enforcement, and reduces management overhead.
Admins can create policy profiles that cover security
groups, tagging, instance types, container
permissions, networks, and more.
Policy Profiles can then be enforced on environments
that serve all types of users.
11. Enable Innovation with Cloud Services
Let developers innovate and take advantage of cloud services as
the Cloud Platforms make them available. Scalr’s Cloud Service
Gateway provides approved user access to requested cloud
services while giving administrators the ability to track and
manage usage.
Native Cloud Services logically integrate with Scalr applications
and are heavily adopted by our customers. These are services
that map to applications and are tightly integrated within the Scalr
UI (i.e. ELB, ALB, RDS, S3 EMR, EFS and more).
The Cloud Services Gateway (CSG) enables access control, policy,
and analytics for all other Cloud Services. It acts as a proxy
between the user and the cloud platform, giving admins the
control they need while developers enjoy a native API experience.
Other solutions limit users to the services integrated into the
platform, or offer costly professional services packages to build
one-off custom integrations, which present other concerns like
the handling of API keys.
12. Reduce Costs and Increase Visibility
Enterprises need fine-grained control and visibility into
cloud spend to responsibly budget, forecast, manage
and chargeback based on cost centers, business units,
projects, applications and users.
Scalr provides extensive financial reports that adhere to
The Organizational Model. Admins are able to assign
and display expenses in the hierarchy that makes sense
for the organization.
Cost Control is more than reporting. Scalr policies are
part of the provisioning workflow and prevent
overspend, communicate prices and budgets to users,
alert managers and reclaim resources when necessary.
13. You Gain:
Across Public Clouds, Private Clouds, and Datacenters
VISIBILITY
Virtual Machines
Containers
Cloud Services
Cloud Spend
Resource Usage
CONTROL
Preventative &
Reactive Policies
Inheritance Model -
Configure Once,
Enforce Everywhere
Guardrails For All
User-Types
COST
REDUCTION
Reclamation
Policies
Automated Scaling
Actionable
Reporting
SPEED &
PRODUCTIVITY
Service Catalog
Power Console
API
End-to-end
Automation
App Portability
14. Deployment
Enterprise Scalr can be deployed on a single
machine, in an HA configuration, or a full
production scale environment. Scalr can be
deployed in private and/or public cloud
infrastructure.
POC Deployment HA Deployment Production Scale
All modules,
one machine
Proxy
Sessions
App
Statistics
Worker
Proxy
(one or more)
ReplicaReplica Main DB Cost Analytics DB
App
(one or more)
Sessions
(one or more)
WorkerStatistics
End Users
Cloud API
Cloud Instances