Insight to ActionVisibility, Optimisation and Governance for your AWS Cloud and Hybrid Environments
Cloud Service Management
Elise OertliDirector, CloudHealth Australia & New Zealand
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About Elise Oertli
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Who is CloudHealth Technologies?
Deep Domain expertise
$40 Million in Venture Capital Raised
500+ Direct Customers
1,000+ Channel Customers through 50+ Partners
130+ Employees
Headquartered in Boston, MA
Offices in San Francisco, Washington DC, London, Sydney & Singapore
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Complexities of Cloud Operations and Management
GOVERNANCEAutomate and control
assets based on enforcing business
policies and governance definitions.
OPTIMISATIONBuild and run a cost and performance optimised architecture that scales
without added complexity.
VISIBILITYGlobal consolidated
visibility and on-demand reporting across cloud
and data center environments.
COST USAGE PERFORMANCE SECURITY
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GOVERNANCE POLICY MANAGEMENT
SERVICE LEVEL GROUPING
AUTOMATED ACTIONS
COST ASSETS
TREND
USAGE
ANALYZE
PERFORMANCE
SECURITY OPTIMIZE REPORT
Configuration Management
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Fault & Performance Management
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Incident / Change Management
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COLLECT INTEGRATE CONSOLIDATE
Cloud Provider Asset, Cost, Usage
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Granular visibility of all aspects of cloud assets: Cost, usage, performance, security, configuration
How do I know which groups are consuming cloud infrastructure?
Key business stakeholders invested in the cloud journey
Who should care about this data?
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Key Areas of Cloud Visibility
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Gain Visibility1. Cost, Usage, Performance, and Security
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Gain Visibility1. Cost, Usage, Performance, and Security
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Gain Visibility1. Cost, Usage, Performance, and Security
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Gain Visibility2. Business Stakeholder Investment
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Idle / Unused Assets(Zombie Infrastructure)
Am I only running what I need, and when I need it?
Oversized / Overprovisioned Instances
Am I maximising my deployed resources?
AWS Cost OptimisationReservations
How am I using AWS Cost Reservations?
Key Areas of Cost Optimisation – Improve TCO
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S o l u t i o n
Optimise Workloads & Environments1. Improve TCO – Unused Assets
Unused Asset Control- Unattached EBS Volumes- Old EC2 Snapshots- Unassociated EIPs- Idle Reservations
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Amazon Cloudwatch reports metrics on:
- CPU- Disk I/O- Network I/O
Optimise Workloads & Environments2. Improve TCO – Rightsizing Underutilised Assets
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Collect further metrics on:- Memory- Disk Utilisation- Filesystem Utilisation
Using:- CloudHealth Agent- Datadog- New Relic- Custom Metrics API
Optimise Workloads & Environments2. Improve TCO – Rightsizing Underutilised Assets
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Optimise Workloads & Environments2. Improve TCO – Rightsizing Underutilised Assets
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Optimise Workloads & Environments2. Improve TCO – Rightsizing Underutilised Assets
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Optimise Workloads & Environments3. Improve TCO – Utilise AWS Reserved Instances
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Optimise Workloads & Environments3. Improve TCO – Modify AWS Reserved Instances
Scope RI modification
Instance Type RI modification
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Key Areas of Governance
Cost and Financial Policies Is my spend going to exceed my budget?
Configuration Policies Are tags applied consistently and correctly?
Security Policies Are my environments continually secure?
Operational Management Policies Can’t I just automate these repetitive tasks?
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Govern your Cloud1. Automated Policies – Configuration, Usage, Performance, Security
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Govern your Cloud2. Security Policies and Validation
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Govern your Cloud2. Security Policies and Validation
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News Corp:– Over 15,000 EC2 Instances– Over 1,400 RDS Instances– 5PB+ S3 Storage
CloudHealth has helped News Corp:– Achieve 40%+ in Cost Savings– Gain Visibility into Cloud spend– Understand and control rising cloud costs– Deliver Automated self-governing cloud
management
Case Study: News Corp
“When we entered the digital world, we didn’t
have a good view into our cloud spend.
All finance saw at the end of the day is a bill, and
the bill was rising every month.”
RUSSELL BRADFORD Cloud Platform Manager, News UK
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Visibility– Identify zombie RDS instances, EBS
volumes and ELBs– Understand causes of S3 growth
Optimisation– Rightsizing– Continuous RI modifications
–Governance– Improved tag governance– Lights on/Lights off for dev
environments– Security best practices enforced
Case Study: News Corp
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Continuously analyse the data (cloud is not set and forget)
Empower stakeholders with visibility
Optimise your Infrastructure
Leverage AWS Reservations
Establish high value policies
Automate, automate, automate
Key TakeAways
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Let’s continue the conversation at future meetups! July 5th: Deep Dive on Cloud Cost
Management– Learn tips from the largest users of AWS in the
world on keeping their cloud costs in check
October 4th: Deep Dive on Cloud Security and Governance
– We’ll cover best practices for staying ahead of cloud security operations vulnerabilities, before they become problems
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Thank You!
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