Dive deep into specific, common use cases for enterprise customers while stepping through the process of building a cloud and IT transformation strategy leveraging the AWS Cloud Adoption Framework. We will build a prescriptive roadmap for a cloud journey leveraging best practices, common techniques, and real-world examples from other AWS successes.

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Shahbaz Alam – AWS Professional Services
Nick Otto - SAS
October 2015
AWS Cloud Adoption Framework
Create Your Cloud Strategy and
Accelerate Time to Results
ISM 305

2. 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

3. 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
Industry
Cost Control
Reporting
Core Competency
DevOps

4. 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

5. 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

6. …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

7. …and business vertical influences
• Industry or government-specific
regulations
• Compliance and governance
• Technology adoption rates

8. What is my
journey?
Every journey to the cloud is different…

9. …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

10. CAF Core Perspectives
Process Perspective
Managing portfolios, programs and projects
to deliver expected business outcome on
time and within budget, while keeping risks
at acceptable levels.
People Perspective
Defining and acquiring the skills needed to
adopt the AWS cloud platform. Examples
guidance include role descriptions, training,
certification and mentoring.
Maturity Perspective
Defining the target state architecture of the
organization and creating the required
blueprints and roadmaps.
Platform Perspective
Represents 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 Perspective
Represents 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 Perspective
Defining and implementing the required
levels of security, governance, and risk
management to achieve compliance.
Business Perspective
Identifying, delivering, and measuring
business impact using architectural
approaches that align technical delivery to
business imperatives.

11. Developing Your Roadmap
Using the AWS CAF

12. 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!

13. 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

14. 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.

15. Execute and Deliver
Explore
Prepare
Migrate /
Develop
Iterate
Business
Value
Optimization
Automation
Cost
Reduction
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

16. 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

17. What Does the AWS CAF Look
Like in Real Life?

18. SAS IT: Cloud Enablement
Guiding the Cloud Journey
J Nick Otto, IT Director, @jnickotto

19. • 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.

20. 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

21. Whence we came…
Rogue
Road
Signs
Governed
Origin
• No coordination
• Redundant effort
• Wild Wild West
Current
• Cloud Foundation
Services
• Guardrails
• Trusted Advisors
Transitional
• Secondary roles
• Loose confederation
• Advocacy and
consulting
❄

22. …to where we are
Rogue
Road
Signs
Governed
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

23. 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.

24. 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

25. 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

26. 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

27. 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

28. Thank you!

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