The advent of highly scalable, easy-to-deploy technology is transforming both private and public entities – but it’s not a one-size-fits-all approach. Each organization has its own cloud journey to share. Some start with pilot projects, while others jump into mission-critical programs. Adopting the cloud doesn’t mean starting over – it’s about enhancing your existing infrastructure. This session explores how organizations are using the cloud to build on their existing technologies and learning valuable lessons along the way.

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Blake Chism, Global Practice Development, AWS
Cloud Native, Cloud First, and Hybrid
How Different Organizations Are
Approaching Cloud Adoption

2. What to expect from the session
• What is Cloud?
• Cloud Adoption Journey
• Cloud Adoption Framework
• Action Plan
• Elements of a Successful Journey

3. What is Cloud?

4. Cloud adoption is more than just technology…
Why?
Cloud Strategy
Business strategy
Enabler of the Business DevOps
What are others doing?
How?
Industry
Cost Control
Reporting
Operational Effectiveness
Talent Optimization
IT as Utility
Application Transformation
Security
Compliance and Governance
Measure
Continuous Deployment
On Demand
Fail early & Iterate
When?
Cloud Adoption Roadmap
What?

5. How are Customers Using Cloud?
City Planning Sanitation Parks Voting Street Maintenance
Disaster
Preparedness
Public
Websites
Job Creation Air
Transportation
Open Data
Utility Monitoring
Healthcare
Route Planning Public Safety Sensor Monitoring Archives

6. Government: Embracing Innovation, Engaging
Citizens, Smart Cities
§ Recognizing hubs of innovation in three
categories:
‒ Best Practices
‒ Collaborators in Innovation
‒ Dream Big
§ Winners receive AWS promotional credits to
start or continue their projects
City on a Cloud Innovation Challenge
Helping local and regional governments innovate by simplifying IT workloads such
as geographical information systems, content management systems, open data
portals, and more:

7. Chicago’s Open Grid
Chicago’s OpenGrid is a
real-time situational
awareness platform that
lets citizens explore
what’s happening
around them using 600
public data sets hosted
on AWS.

8. Financial Services: FINRA estimates up to $20
million in savings
We chose AWS because we wanted to be
able to deliver innovation at a much larger
scale and much more rapidly to our core
business.
– Saman Michael Far, SVP Technology
To respond to rapidly changing market
dynamics, FINRA moved about 75 percent of
its operations to AWS:
§ Created a flexible platform that can adapt to
changing market dynamics while providing its
analysts with the tools to interactively query multi-
petabyte data sets
§ Using AWS to capture, analyze, and store a daily
influx of 75 billion records
”
“

9. Education: Reducing Costs, Improving Outcomes in
the Cloud
Saved $500,000 while
improving the
performance of analytics
platform 20x
Predict student
outcomes within
2 weeks of a
semester with
81% accuracy
Reduced upfront costs of
MOOC by 99%, making it
.07% cost of similar
projects

10. Cloud Adoption Journey

11. The Cloud Isn’t an “All-or-Nothing” Choice…
On-Premises Apps
§ Active Directory
§ Network
configuration
AWS Cloud Apps/
Cloud Native
§ Users and access
rules (IAM)
§ Your private network
(Amazon VPC)
Hybrid
AWS/On-Premises
§ Encryption
§ Backup
appliances
§ Encryption (Amazon
S3, Amazon RDS,
Cloud HSM)
§ Backups (Storage
Gateway)
…it’s a journey.

12. Cloud Adoption Path
DEVELOPMENT
& TEST ALL TOGETHER NEW
APPLICATIONS
DIGITAL
ANALYTICS
MOBILE
DC MIGRATION
MISSION
CRITICAL APPS
ALL IN
1 2 3 4
The journey to AWS begins today; continues
through strategy and planning, proof-of-
concept migrations, team enablement, data-
center migration; and extends into innovative
net new cloud deployments.

13. Organizations typically follow a four-stage path as they adopt
cloud, with additional value being delivered at each stage
Project
Foundation
Migration
Value
Time
Optimization

14. AWS is used on a
project-by-project
basis
Solves specific
need(s) for the
customer
Few AWS skill sets
in-house
Customer is proving to
themselves that cloud
is a viable option
Stages of Adoption #1: Project

15. Stages of Adoption #2: Foundation
AWS extends
existing data centers
Opens up many new
projects
Training and
establishing a Cloud
Center of Excellence
Establish scalable
security and
compliance models
Between 3-5 enterprise-
grade production
applications on AWS

16. Stages of Adoption #3: Migration
Groups of
production
applications and/or
data centers
migrate
Cloud Center of
Excellence is
established
IT roles redefinedPreparing for long-
term cloud
operations

17. Stages of Adoption #4: Optimization
Cloud becomes
default choice
New business
models explored
Switch from “Why
Cloud?” to “Why Not
Cloud?”
More comfortable with
cloud operations than
on-premises model

18. If organizations can accelerate adoption, they realise greater
value earlier in the journey and help foster greater innovation
RETIRE TECHNICAL DEBT
Value
Time
Project
Foundation
Migration
Optimization
FOSTER INNOVATION (CLOUD NATIVE)

19. Cloud Adoption Framework

20. The Cloud Adoption Framework

21. Business
Common Roles:
• Business Managers
• Finance Managers
• Budget Owners
• Strategy Stakeholders

22. People
Common Roles:
• Human Resources
• Staffing
• People Managers

23. Governance
Common Roles:
• CIO
• Program Managers
• Project Managers
• Enterprise Architects
• Business Analysts
• Portfolio Managers

24. Platform
Common Roles:
• CTO
• IT Managers
• Solution Architects

25. Security
Common Roles:
• CISO
• IT Security Managers
• IT Security Analysts
• Compliance Leaders

26. Operations
Common Roles:
• IT Operations Managers
• IT Support Managers

27. Action Plan

28. AWS Premier Consulting Partners
Helping customers of all sizes design, architect, build, migrate, and
manage their workloads and applications on AWS.

29. Advanced APN Technology Partners
Providing software solutions that are either hosted on, or integrated with,
the AWS platform.

30. AWS Professional Services
Partnering in Your Journey
Technical
Specialists
Specialty practices for
AWS skills transfer,
security, infrastructure
architecture,
application
optimization, analytics,
big data, and
operational integration
Advisory
Services
Portfolio strategy and
planning, cost/benefit
modeling, governance,
change management
and risk management
as it relates to
implementing the AWS
platform
Collaboration
Working together with
you and APN Premier
Partners you already
trust to provide you
with access to all
resources needed to
realize breakthrough
results
Proven
Process
Best practices and
patterns to help your
teams get the
foundation right, deploy
and migrate workloads,
and create a modern IT
operating model to
support your business

31. Elements of a Successful Journey

32. Executive
Sponsorship
Cloud-First
Strategy
Principles &
Standards
Experiment
Cloud Center
of Excellence
Organizational
Change
Adoption
Roadmap
Align on business requirements; bring all stakeholders with you
Define architectures, patterns, governance; measure, monitor, iterate
Publish guidance and guard rails for how to adopt cloud successfully
Provide centralized expertise; guide decentralized innovations
Define new operating models, policies, processes, economics; provide training
Start small and iterate, measure, manage and update plan
Create your vision; incentivize team members to follow your lead
Elements of a Successful Journey

33. The AWS Cloud Adoption Journey
§ It requires planning and an adoption roadmap
§ Your AWS Cloud adoption strategy should be aligned
closely with business goals and objectives
§ It can be disruptive and will drive significant change
§ Most customers start small, learn, iterate, and accelerate
§ Value can be achieved quickly

34. Blake Chism
blakech@amazon.com