Cloud Strategy Boot Camp

Part 1: Fundamentals of Cloud Computing

Tenets of Cloud Computing

• What makes something “cloud”?
• The five tenets
• Why the five tenets are so difficult in practice
• The cloud mindset

Cloud Deployment Models

• Types of providers
• Public
• Private
• Hybrid
• Combining providers
• Single
• Multi-cloud
• Choosing among provider types
• Using cloud providers securely

Cloud Service Models

• Infrastructure as a service (IaaS)
• Platform as a service (PaaS)
• Software as a service (SaaS)
• Serverless

Communicating Your Cloud Journey

• Share your cloud strategy
• Don’t ignore the people side of strategy success
• Stay connected regularly and be available
• Expect challenges and doubters
• Celebrate your successes and share lessons learned
• Exercise: Develop a communications plan

Part 2: Cloud Strategy Overview

What Is Cloud Strategy?

• What it is (and isn’t)
• Relation to other strategies and plans
• Once you have one, now what?

From Business Vision to Cloud Strategy

• Desired business outcomes
• Potential benefits
• Potential risks
• The rise of bimodal IT
• Business-specific factors
• Exercise: Align benefits and risks with desired outcomes

Cloud Strategy Council

• What is it?
• Why do you need one?
• Who’s on it?

Services Model

• Consume
• Build
• Broker
• Hybrid Management
• Exercise: Develop sample services model

Financial Models

• How pricing works for cloud services
• Is cloud cheaper?
• CapEx vs. OpEx

Principles

• Why principles matter
• Common cloud principles
• How to choose yours
• Exercise: Select cloud principles for sample case

Workload Inventory

• The hard work of preparation
• Exercise: Complete a sample workload inventory

Establish Governance Model

• Importance of cloud governance
• Layers of governance
• Enterprise architecture
• Technical architecture
• Application architecture
• Data architecture
• Risk and compliance
• Legal compliance
• Industry compliance
• Internal policies
• Cloud center of excellence

Staffing, Resource, and Training Impacts

• Assessment of roles needed and impacted
• Evaluate corporate staffing and resource policies
• Exercise: Complete a sample training plan

Exit Strategy

• Why it’s critical to have one
• Contracts
• Data ownership and retention
• Potential risks and issues

Part 3: Beginning Cloud Adoption

Cloud Adoption Framework

• Assess
• Perform
• Extend
• Improve

Assess Your Cloud Readiness

• Initiating your adoption planning
• Conducting cloud readiness assessments inventorying
• Interpreting readiness results
• Moving from assessment to action plan
• Exercise: Complete a sample readiness assessment

Cloud Migration Decision Framework: The 6Rs

• Replace
• Refactor
• Rehost
• Retain
• Retire
• Replatform
• Exercise: Apply cloud migration decision framework to a sample case

Select Your First Cloud Service

• Prioritize candidate services
• Select candidates for your first cloud service
• Assess service criticality of each candidate
• Assess risk and benefit of each candidate
• Decide on the first cloud service
• Architect selected cloud service
• Cloud native
• 12 factor app methodology
• LIFESPAR
• Exercise: Rearchitect sample architecture for cloud migration
• Evaluate cost and return
• Maximize your cloud value
• Avoid surprise bills
• Use demand forecasting effectively
• Trade off space and time to save money
• Hit your uptime targets without breaking the bank
• Assess benefits of cloud service
• Operational efficiencies or agility
• Changes in staffing and skill sets
• Operations
• Development
• Security
• Expected cost savings from infrastructure
• Determine costs of cloud services
• Assessing impact on staff resources
• Compute cloud service costs
• Throughput
• Compute time
• Scalability
• Resiliency
• Exercise: Estimate cost for sample architecture for public cloud providers

Part 4: Extending and Improving Adoption

Assess Hybrid Operating Challenges

• Development and testing
• Development toolchain
• Debugging in the cloud
• Testing
• Operations
• The rise of SRE
• Moving administration up the stack
• Aligning cloud service monitoring and on-premises monitoring
• Survey of SRE vendors and tools
• Security
• Incident and event management
• Auditing
• Policy enforcement
• Penetration testing
• Threat assessment and modeling
• Vulnerability management
• Identity and access controls
• The continuum of identity from on-premises to IDaaS
• Understand the benefits and trade-offs of IAM protocols
• Identity as the new edge
• The hidden costs of identity in SaaS
• Survey of cloud IAM vendors
• Environment management
• Moving from on-premises environments to cloud environments
• Hybrid environment challenges
• Configuration management
• Impact of cloud service models on configuration
• Storing secrets securely
• Managing secrets over time
• Monitoring for drift
• Survey of configuration management vendors and tools
• Deployment and release management
• A new philosophy of release management
• Separating deployment from release
• Monitor and recover from failed deployments
• Data management
• Implement proper security controls
• Plan a successful data migration effort
• Establish audit and traceability
• Analysis and reporting from the cloud
• Business continuity and disaster recovery
• Evaluate business continuity procedures
• Evaluate disaster recovery procedures

Improve Cloud Adoption Practices

• Conduct regular retrospectives
• Improve automation
• Manage workloads
• Refine governance, security, and risk processes
• Train and develop staff
• Monitor cloud consumption
• Perform ongoing security and risk assessments

Part 5: Wrap Up

• Our Cloud Strategy Journey
• What To Do Now
• Final Thoughts