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Shahbaz Alam – AWS Professional Services

Nick Otto - SAS

October 2015

AWS Cloud Adoption FrameworkCreate Your Cloud Strategy and

Accelerate Time to Results

ISM 305

What to Expect from the Session

• The Journey to the Cloud

• AWS Cloud Adoption Framework (CAF)

• AWS CAF Core Perspectives

• Developing Your Roadmap

• Key Elements of a Successful Journey

• AWS CAF in Real Life

• Lessons Learned

Cloud adoption in more than just technology…

“Infrastructure-less” Environment

IT as a Utility

Business Alignment

Plan for Failure vs. Encourage Failure

Why Prevent the Inevitable?

Governance and Policy

What Are Others Doing?

Operational Integration

Continuous Deployment

Talent Optimization

Application Optimization

On Demand

Why?

When?

Security

How?

Compliance

AWS

IndustryCost Control

Reporting

Core Competency

DevOps

Cloud adoption is a journey

Current State

High up-front costs – high risk

Expensive to get and keep secure

Long time to value

Non-value add capabilities

Not always business aligned

Desired State

Low up-front costs & risk profile

Security and certification built in

Agility improving time to value

Focusing on core business

Enabler of the business

Knowing your current state is critical…

…Creating a vision for the future is powerful

Begin by understanding your business

objectives and constraints…

• Competitive advantage in the

market

• Reducing the cost of

traditional IT

• Adapting to market changes

quickly

• Aligning IT to business strategy

…your organization’s capabilities…

• Organization size and complexity

• Regional and global footprint

• Operational maturity

• Centralized or decentralized IT

delivery model

• Internal culture

• Startup vs. well-established

business

…and business vertical influences

• Industry or government-specific

regulations

• Compliance and governance

• Technology adoption rates

What is my

journey?Every journey to the cloud is different…

…Let the AWS Cloud Adoption Framework be

your guide

• 7 Perspectives

• Step-by-step process to build your cloud roadmap

• Execution and delivery approach

Comprehensive framework to efficiently and effectively

align your cloud adoption journey to your business

objectives. The AWS CAF is comprised of:

AWS CAF 7

Perspectives

https://d0.awsstatic.com/whitepapers/aws_cloud_adoption_framework.pdf

CAF Core Perspectives

Process PerspectiveManaging portfolios, programs and projects

to deliver expected business outcome on

time and within budget, while keeping risks

at acceptable levels.

People PerspectiveDefining and acquiring the skills needed to

adopt the AWS cloud platform. Examples

guidance include role descriptions, training,

certification and mentoring.

Maturity PerspectiveDefining the target state architecture of the

organization and creating the required

blueprints and roadmaps.

Platform PerspectiveRepresents the technology services of the

AWS cloud platform. Provides patterns,

guidance, and tools for optimal use of the

technology services and services to

implement.

Operating PerspectiveRepresents the ongoing management of the

functioning IT environment of AWS.

Provides process, guidance and tools for

optimum operational service management of

the AWS environment.

Security PerspectiveDefining and implementing the required

levels of security, governance, and risk

management to achieve compliance.

Business PerspectiveIdentifying, delivering, and measuring

business impact using architectural

approaches that align technical delivery to

business imperatives.

Developing Your Roadmap

Using the AWS CAF

Understand Your Strategy and Market Drivers

Industry drivers

Market drivers &

innovation

Cloud Adoption

StrategyBusiness strategy

Key Activities:

• Develop your cloud strategy aligned to

business requirements.

• Engage your stakeholders from the start

and bring them on the journey with you.

• Communicate the value to the business.

• Define measurable goals and monitor.

Set the stage for the journey. Be bold, but be smart!

Understand Where You Are Today

Baseline

Gap

Initiatives

• Assess and baseline current

cloud / IT capabilities with

respect to people, process

and technology

• Prioritize list of

activities/initiatives when

executed result in delivery

of the business strategy

• Define the key cloud adoption

capabilities required to

achieve business objectives

Key Activities:

• Assess current capabilities: application

portfolio, talent, operational readiness,

architecture

• Define gaps in current state capabilities to

deliver on cloud vision and strategy

• Run workshop(s) on gap analysis,

presenting and verifying results with

stakeholders

Determine what capabilities you require to achieve your cloud vision

Plan your journey

Cloud Activities Matrix

Cloud Roadmap

Key Activities:

• Develop prioritized set of

recommendations and initiatives

• Develop cloud adoption roadmap with

function dependencies and timelines

• Develop communications plan and

schedule

• Organize resources, partners, etc.

• Track progress, measure and report

success often.

Develop and prioritize key initiatives for your cloud adoption roadmap to guide your execution.

Execute and Deliver

Explore

Prepare

Migrate / Develop

Iterate

Business Value

Optimization

Automation

CostReduction

Implement roadmap items. Start small and iterate based on lessons learned. Enjoy the journey and

reap the value!!!

Key Activities:

• Explore - why do it, what business value,

gap analysis

• Prepare - project plan for activity, training,

establish platform, establish operations,

establish security

• Migrate/Develop - Move an existing

application to the cloud or develop a new

cloud native application

• Iterate - measure and identify opportunities

to improve

Key elements of a successful journey

Executive

Sponsorship

Experiment

Principles &

Standards

Cloud Center of

Excellence

Adoption

Roadmap

Cloud-First

Strategy

Organizational

Change

Align on business requirements; bring all stakeholders with you

Create your vision; incentivize team members to follow your lead

Define Architectures, patterns, governance; measure, monitor, iterate

Publish guidance and guard rails for how to adopt cloud successfully

Provide centralized expertise; guide decentralized innovations

Start small and iterate, measure, manage and update plan

Define new operating models, policies, processes, economics; provide training

What Does the AWS CAF Look

Like in Real Life?

SAS IT: Cloud EnablementGuiding the Cloud Journey

J Nick Otto, IT Director, @jnickotto

• SAS is the leader in analytics.

• Since 1976, SAS has been giving customers around the

world THE POWER TO KNOW®.

• SAS is headquartered in Cary, NC, has 13,000+

employees and $3B+ in yearly revenues.

About

Through innovative analytics, business intelligence, and data

management software and services, SAS helps customer at more

than 75,000 sites make better decisions faster.

Cloud Analytics and More

Cloud, Cloud, and More Cloud

• Leveraging both on-premises and off-premises clouds

• Providing self-service IT infrastructure

• Supporting SAS Cloud Analytics

Analytics of Things

• Event Stream Processing, Big Data, and IoT

Whence we came…

RogueRoad

SignsGoverned

Origin

• No coordination

• Redundant effort

• Wild Wild West

Current

• Cloud Foundation Services

• Guardrails

• Trusted Advisors

Transitional

• Secondary roles

• Loose confederation

• Advocacy and consulting

❄

…to where we are

RogueRoad

SignsGoverned

Origin

• No coordination

• Redundant effort

• Wild Wild West

Current

• Cloud Foundation Services

• Guardrails

• Trusted Advisors

Transitional

• Secondary roles

• Loose confederation

• Advocacy and consulting

❄

Circle of

Trust

Executive Leadership and IT Business Ops

• The CIO sets the direction

• Business Operations Specialists are the shepherds

• Focus on business engagement and partnership

• Cloud enabled as a precursor to cloud first

• Cost and risk management from the beginning

Executive

Sponsorship

Cloud-First

Standard

Establishing Executive direction and

forming a team focused on Hosting &

Cloud Business Operations (Strategy)

was a key first step of our journey.

Sandboxes, Support, and Focus

• Establishment of Cloud Foundation Services – focused virtual IT

support team

• Cloud portal – providing access, documentation, guides

• Sandboxes and access-for-all approach

• Sharing of best practices and common tooling

Make it easy to experiment in the cloud

– and do it with support, guidance, and

set of standards, leading the way to a

consistent outcome.

Experiment

Principles &

Standards

Cloud Center of

Excellence

Paving the Way and Equipping for the Journey

• Train, play, learn, assess – wash, rinse, repeat

• Clear vision of what skills the future state organization will require

followed by training opportunities

• Document everything, collaborate and share all

• Automate everything

• Cloud thinking

New models, processes, and paradigms

require new ways of thinking. Training

staff, aligning with the business, and

lighting the way are critical for success.

Adoption

Roadmap

Organizational

Challenges

A Continuous Cycle: Enable Guide Trust

The journey continues…

• Continual Service

Improvement (CSI)

• Adoption of new

technologies / services

• Product enablement

• Staffing / Skill

challenges

• Security

• Speed of Change

Enable

Guide

Trust

Lessons learned

Incorporate business requirements into

your strategy

Align operational capabilities with your

business strategy

Incorporate security designs to meet your

compliance needs

Introduce a DevOps culture and enable /

encourage automation

Understand the maturity of your IT delivery

model and support talent development

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