The document discusses creating a cloud first standard by transitioning IT operations to AWS. It outlines how this can free up 30% of resources for business needs. It provides examples of traditional vs cloud-focused IT maps and organization structures. Key steps include getting executive support, experimenting, educating staff, establishing a cloud center of excellence, adopting hybrid models, and engaging partners to create a cloud-first standard.

1. Creating a Cloud First Standard
Ian Massingham
AWS Technical Evangelist
@IanMmmm

2. ©2015, Amazon Web Services, Inc. or its affiliates. All rights reserved
Creating a Cloud Standard
How to accelerate your business
and be an IT hero
Ian Massingham, Technical Evangelist, AWS
@IanMmmm

3. What if you could devote 30% more of
your resources to your customers?

4. IT Map - Traditional IT
E-mail, Productivity,
Collaboration, HR,
Finance, ERP
Desktop Support, Device
Management, Telephony,
IT Support
Information Security, CISO Encryption, Key Management, Identity
Management, Firewalls, IDS, DDoS
Business Applications
CTO/VP Applications
Digital Products, Brand
Websites, Mobile
Applications, Point of Sale
Systems, Commerce
Corporate Applications
CIO/VP Corp Systems
End User Computing
VP IT Support
Infrastructure, VP Infrastructure Servers, Storage, Networking, Databases,
Data Warehousing, Data Centers

5. IT Map - Traditional IT with AWS
Information Security, CISO
Corporate Applications
CIO/VP Corp Systems
End User Computing
VP IT Support
Infrastructure, VP Infrastructure
Business Applications
CTO/VP Applications
AWS Elastic Beanstalk,
AWS Lambda, Amazon SQS,
Amazon SNS, Amazon
Mobile Analytics, Amazon
CloudFront
Amazon WorkMail,
Amazon WorkDocs, AWS
Marketplace, AWS
Directory Service, SaaS
Amazon WorkSpaces,
Amazon AppStream, AWS
Marketplace, AWS Mobile
Services, SaaS
AWS Identity and Access Management
(IAM), AWS CloudHSM, AWS Key
Management Service (AWS KMS),
Security Groups, AWS Marketplace
Amazon EC2, Amazon S3, Amazon RDS, Amazon VPC,
Amazon Direct Connect, Directory Service, IAM, AWS
Service Catalog

6. Enterprise Customers

7. IT Map - A Cloud-First Tomorrow
Information Security, CISO
Business Applications
CTO/VP Applications
DevOps
VP DevOps
+30%
added to
your
business
Corporate Applications
CIO/VP Corp Systems
End User Computing
VP IT Support
AWS Elastic Beanstalk,
AWS Lambda, Amazon SQS, Amazon
SNS, Amazon Mobile Analytics,
Amazon CloudFront
Amazon WorkMail,
Amazon WorkDocs, AWS
Marketplace, AWS
Directory Service, SaaS
Amazon WorkSpaces,
Amazon AppStream, AWS
Marketplace, AWS Mobile
Services, SaaS
Amazon EC2, Amazon S3, Amazon RDS, Amazon VPC,
Amazon Direct Connect, Directory Service, IAM, AWS
Service Catalog
AWS Identity and Access Management
(IAM), AWS CloudHSM, AWS Key
Management Service (AWS KMS),
Security Groups, AWS Marketplace

8. It’s a Journey

9. Each journey is unique, but here’s what we see
along the way…
Executive
Sponsorship
Experiment
Educate Staff

10. Each journey is unique, but here’s what we see
along the way…
Executive
Sponsorship
Experiment
Educate Staff
Making it Real
Cloud Center of
Excellence
Hybrid
Adoption
Cloud-First
Standard
Engage
Partners

11. Each journey is unique, but here’s what we see
along the way…
Executive Sponsorship
Hybrid
Adoption
Cloud Center of
Excellence
Cloud-First
Standard
Making it Real
Engage Partners

12. Provide Executive Support
Path of least resistance
Don’t bet the farm
Deal with internal politics
Can start anywhere
CEO

13. Align on the Outcome
CEO
Competitive advantage
Save money
CIO
Business alignment
Move faster, more efficiency
CFO
Improved cash flow
Save money
CMO
Respond to market changes
More experimentation, better analytics
CISO Visibility, auditability, control
CRO
Get more products to market
Move faster, more efficiency
Priority AWS Value
Experience
Pace of Innovation
Service Depth & Breadth
Pricing Philosophy
Ecosystem
Global

14. Each journey is unique, but here’s what we see
along the way…
Educate Staff Hybrid
Adoption
Cloud Center of
Excellence
Cloud-First
Standard
Making it Real
Engage Partners

15. Cloud Skill Demand
%ofmatchingjobpostings
0
20%
10%
Jan '06
Job Trends from
indeed.com
Amazon Web Services
Jan ‘15
1.7M
Unfilled cloud jobs in 2012
7M
projected jobs in three years
Internal champions
= faster adoption

16. Educate Staff
Online videos
and labs
Instructor-led
courses
Business Stakeholders Technical Staff
Understand the efficiency,
agility, and innovation
opportunities of the cloud
Determine migration strategies
Design available and secure applications
Develop applications using scripts and SDKs
Scale and automate implementations
AWS Essentials -
Business & Technical
aws.amazon.com/training

17. Each journey is unique, but here’s what we see
along the way…
Experiment
Hybrid
Adoption
Cloud Center of
Excellence
Cloud-First
Standard
Making it Real
Engage Partners

19. AWS Cloud Adoption Framework
Professional
Services
Business
Perspective
Platform
Perspective
Process
Perspective
People
Perspective
Maturity
Perspective
Operating
Perspective
Security
Perspective

20. Tell us your story