Join CloudHealth as we take a deeper dive into what Cloud Service Management can help drive business success. Through real world customer success stories we'll tackle the three core pillars of Cloud Services Management, Visibility, Optimization and Governance Presented by - Elise Oertli - Director CloudHealth Technologies ANZ View the full presentation here - https://youtu.be/L-B8kYBEVGk Presented at AWS User Group Sydney https://www.meetup.com/AWS-Sydney/ Hosted by PolarSeven -http://polarseven.com

1. Insight to Action
Visibility, Optimisation and Governance for your
AWS Cloud and Hybrid Environments
Cloud Service Management
Elise Oertli
Director, CloudHealth Australia & New Zealand

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 23 years in IT
 5 years at Amazon
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
GOVERNANCE
Automate and control
assets based on enforcing
business policies and
governance definitions.
OPTIMISATION
Build and run a cost and
performance optimised
architecture that scales
without added complexity.
VISIBILITY
Global 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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Event
Management
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Security
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 Visibility
1. Cost, Usage, Performance, and Security

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Gain Visibility
1. Cost, Usage, Performance, and Security

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Gain Visibility
1. Cost, Usage, Performance, and Security

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Gain Visibility
2. 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 Optimisation
Reservations
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 & Environments
1. 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 & Environments
2. 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 & Environments
2. Improve TCO – Rightsizing Underutilised Assets

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Optimise Workloads & Environments
2. Improve TCO – Rightsizing Underutilised Assets

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Optimise Workloads & Environments
2. Improve TCO – Rightsizing Underutilised Assets

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Optimise Workloads & Environments
3. Improve TCO – Utilise AWS Reserved Instances

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Optimise Workloads & Environments
3. 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 Cloud
1. Automated Policies – Configuration, Usage, Performance, Security

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Govern your Cloud
2. Security Policies and Validation

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Govern your Cloud
2. 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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