Mark Ferguson of Prestige Services presents challenges that AWS customers face after migrating to the cloud. Key challenges include difficulty seeing what is running, understanding cloud bills, knowing costs, cost optimization, security, and following best practices. The document also summarizes a report that found security and managing cloud spend to be top challenges in 2018. It notes that companies underestimate wasted cloud spend and more are focusing on optimizing costs but few have automated policies to do so.

1. Mark Ferguson
Prestige Services, LLC
July 18, 2018

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Here is a picture of AWS Customer after Migrating to the Cloud
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Can you easily see what is running?
Does that AWS bill make sense?
Do you know what your costs are?
Are you cost optimized?
Are you secure?
Are you following AWS best practices?
Do you have cost containment?

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Top Challenges in 2018 are Security and Spend
 Security is a challenge for 77 percent of respondents
 Managing cloud spend is a challenge for 76 percent of respondents
Significant wasted cloud spend drives users to focus on costs
 Cloud users underestimate the amount of wasted cloud spend. Respondents
estimate 30 percent waste, while RightScale has measured actual waste at 35
percent.
 Optimizing cloud costs is the top initiative again in 2018 across all cloud
users, increasing to 58 percent from 53 percent in 2017.
 The number focusing on optimizing spend is even higher among
intermediate and advanced cloud users, at 65 percent and 69 percent,
respectively.
Other top initiatives include:
 Moving more workloads to cloud (51 percent)
 Better financial reporting (44 percent)
 Automated policies for governance (42 percent).
Despite an increased focus on cloud cost management, only a minority of companies have
implemented automated policies to optimize cloud costs, such as shutting down unused workloads or
selecting lower-cost clouds or regions.
Source: RightScale 2018 State of the Cloud Report

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