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Deep Dive on Cloud Policies and Automation
CloudHealth Technologies provides insights for optimizing governance and automation in public and hybrid cloud environments. The company, backed by $86 million in venture capital, offers a platform that includes cost optimization, security recommendations, and policy automation to enhance cloud management. Effective automation and policy implementation are crucial for managing complex AWS environments and freeing up resources for more strategic tasks.
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Deep Dive on Cloud Policies and Automation
- 1. Insight to Action Visibility,Optimization and Governance for your Public Cloud and Hybrid Environments Cloud Policies and Automation Elise Oertli, Director A/NZ
- 2. Confidential Who is CloudHealthTechnologies? § Deep Domain Expertise § $86 Million in Venture Capital Raised § 1,000s of Customers § 85+ Managed Services Partners • 220+ Employees • Headquartered in Boston, MA • Offices located in San Francisco, Washington DC, London, Amsterdam, Tel Aviv, Sydney, Kuala Lumpur & Singapore
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- 4. Confidential AWS Meetup –2017 CloudHealth Sessions Pla$orm Overview Cost Op2misa2on Policies and Automa2on March Meetup July Meetup October Meetup • High Level Overview • Repor2ng and Dashboards • Cost Op2misa2on • Security Recommenda2ons • Automa2on and Governance • 3rd Party Integra2ons • Rightsizing • RI Modelling • RI Modifica2ons • RI Management • Policy-based No2fica2on • Automa2on • Security Recommenda2ons
- 5. Confidential Why do youneed automation and policies? § As you scale your AWS environment, it becomes harder and harder to govern – Netflix Simian Army is a good example § Automation and policies free up employee time from menial tasks § “Manage by exception”
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- 7. Confidential CloudHealth Policy Engine DetailedBilling Record Cost and Usage Report Asset API CloudWatch Metrics 3rd Party Metrics Cloudtrail Logs AWSConfig Rules ...
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- 12. Confidential Types of BestPractice Policies to Consider Financial management policies Performance Management Policies Security and Incident Management Policies Operational Governance Policies Asset & Configuration Management Policies Cost optimization Policies
- 13. Confidential The Cloud Steward § Cross Functional Team Lead for Stakeholders § Defines and Implements Functional Business Groups § Defines and Delivers Reports Across the Business § Manages Policy Definition and Implementation § Performs Analyses, Identifies Recommendations, and Optimization Actions Cloud Steward Operations Finance Engineering LOBs OPERATIONS
- 14. Confidential § Centralized governancethrough policies § Enforce proper tagging governance through policies § Monitors for EC2 instances with less than 5% utilisation, so they can investigate terminating them § Policy to delete unused EBS volumes saving ~ $400 a month § Centralized governance through policies § Implemented lights on/off for non- production infrastructure § Enforced tagging through policy – delete new instance if not tagged § Security best practices enforced CloudHealth tells us which environments can be shut off outside of business hours, saving us more per month.”
- 15. Confidential Work withkey stakeholders to determine what policies to implement Revisit policies frequently to ensure they are still the right ones for your organization Set unique policies by application or line of business Key Take Aways
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