Join this session to learn more about the importance of executive sponsorship to establish priorities and secure the resources to drive a cloud strategy forward. We also share best practices and patterns to build a single threaded, multi-disciplinary team to incubate and accelerate cloud initiatives that transform the way technology supports the business.

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Laying the Groundwork for Change
Cloud Culture Starts at the Top
Rigo Garcia
Manager, Solutions Architecture
Amazon Web Services
S e s s i o n 2 9 5 4 5 4
Peter O’Donoghue
Vice President, Application Services
Unisys Federal

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Related breakouts
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Ben Butler, John Rome, Paul Jurasin
295084 - Stages and Changes: How your Cloud Center of Excellence
CCoE Organization will Evolve During your Cloud Adoption
Shirley Ivan, Samir Shah

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“It is not the strongest of the species that survives,
nor the most intelligent that survives.
It is the one that is the most adaptable to change.”
- Charles Darwin
English naturalist

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Business Drivers for Change
Maximize partnerships,
mergers & acquisitions
Get closer
to customers
Faster
time-to-market
Lower business risk
Increase employee
engagement
Enter new markets and
meet demand
Increase profitability

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What is a Cloud Center of Excellence (CCoE) ?
The CCoE is a multi-disciplinary team that is assembled
to implement the governance, best practices, training,
and architecture needed for cloud adoption in a manner
that provides repeatable patterns for the larger
enterprise to follow.

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Who is part of a CCoE?
• Executive Sponsor, to empower the CCoE
• Alliances Lead, understands your supply chain
• Architecture, designs what you “build”
• IT Operations, runs what you “build”
• Finance, knows how things are paid for
• Sales, knows how things are sold
• Security and Compliance, knows how to mitigate risks
• Legal, knows how to stay out of trouble

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What is the role of the CCoE?
Advisory Prescriptive
Establishes Roadmaps Drives Initiatives
Guides Technology Selection Creates Reference Architectures
Enables Best Practices Conducts Architecture Reviews

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CCoE - Framework

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Typical CCoE Activities
OU
Account
Parent
(Billing and
Governance)
VPC

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Typical CCoE Activities
• Account vs VPC
OU
Account
Parent
(Billing and
Governance)
VPC

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Typical CCoE Activities
• AWS Organizations
• Naming Standards
OU
Account
Parent
(Billing and
Governance)
VPC

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Typical CCoE Activities
• Cost Management
OU
Account
Parent
(Billing and
Governance)
VPC

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Typical CCoE Activities
• Naming Standards
• Security Baseline
OU
Account
Parent
(Billing and
Governance)
VPC

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Typical CCoE Activities
Lunch & Learns

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Typical CCoE Activities
Lunch & Learns

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Typical CCoE Activities
Identity & Access
Management

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Typical CCoE Activities
Identity & Access
Management

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Typical CCoE Activities
VPC Configuration Service Catalog

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Typical CCoE Activities
VPC Configuration Service Catalog

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Typical CCoE Activities
Keep Reference
Architectures
up-to-date

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Typical CCoE Activities
Keep Reference
Architectures
up-to-date

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Create template, and deliver
Infrastructure as Code to the
CCoE
Amazon S3
AWS Storage Gateway
Example One
Can we use cloud
to improve our
backup
capabilities?
Create a proof of concept,
and deliver a reference
architecture to the CCoE
Develop a show/billback
Gather feedback to
improve
AWS CloudFormation
Can we automate
our Disaster
Recovery
capabilities?
Feature Enhancement
Gather feedback to
improve

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Buy and monitor RIs; create
data-driven processes to
idealize utilization and deliver
to the CCoE
Implement account strategy,
and provide reference
architecture to CCoE
AWS Landing Zones
AWS Control Tower
Example Two
Iterate go-to-market strategy AWS Account ManagementGather run-rate reporting
Reserved Instances (RIs)
We could lower our
overall costs by
using reserved
instances to support
our service offering.
Realize lower costs
Market research
indicates a large
demand for our
services, but as a
NextGen MSP.

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Unisys Was Fertile Ground for a CCoE
Executive Sponsorship
From the CEO on down
Mature Alliances Program
Led at the VP level
In-house Training Practice
Lightning in a bottle
Culture of Innovation
A deep history of industry firsts
Corporate Investment
Outpacing the market
CCoE

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CCoE
Focus on
Governance,
Not Control
Don’t
Burden the
CCoE with
Operations
Invest in Your
People,
Process, and
Technology
Don’t
Forget to
Measure
Success
Keep the CCoE focused on the Guardrails
Promote Corporate Cloud Strategy | Provide Governance | Gather and Disseminate Best Practices
Unisys CCoE Lessons Learned

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CCoE is Core to Our NextGen MSP

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CCoE in Real Life at Unisys
Promoting Best Practices Through
Reusable Templates and Code Assets
Driving expertise to the edges
Removing Traditional System Integrator
Barriers
Thinking cloud natively
Building an Army of Cloud Practitioners
CCoE
Best-Practices-as-Code

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Choosing the right sponsor for your CCoE

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Next Steps
• Build the Team
• Select (or hire) key experienced people from multiple disciplines.
• Ramp up the Team
• Develop the team’s cloud skills. CCoE members should be well-versed in cloud in order to lead
the rest of the organization.
• Pilot Projects
• Allows the team to experiment and build for faster ramp up.
• Set Standards
• Architecture & Operational Standards - The CCoE should create and harvest standards to
create a baseline for architecting and operating a cloud environment.

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Think Differently…
Moving from
Failure is not an option
Moving toward
Learning (start small, experiment, and iterate)
Change “the way we do things around here”
Command-and-control Decentralized (guardrails via cloud CCoE)
Silos; “throw it over the wall” DevOps and cross-functional teams
Build/deploy in place Automate: Infra-as-code, redeploy every time
Long due diligence Adopt early and often

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Summary
• Think Differently
• Build your foundation - CCoE
• Continuously Iiterate your Cloud Strategy

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Thank you!
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Rigo Garcia
rigogar@amazon.com

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