The road to enterprise-ready, smb-ready, startup-ready Cloud

Create a team of experts –
Cloud Center of Excellence (CCoE)

Create a cross-functional team of experts (Read our whitepaper)
Designate this team as the primary point of contact for all cloud-related inquiries and initiatives
Set this team as the primary contact and contractual partner for all your Hyperscalers

Collect and identify all existing public cloud use cases within the organization
Assume responsibility or provide technical administration for all hyperscaler accounts and organizations
Position the CCoE as the central point of contact for all cloud-related questions and initiatives across the company

Create a Cloud Strategy or a Cloud Consumption Guideline
Create a Cloud Governance and weave it into your Cloud Strategy
Include Hyperscaler Classification, Cloud value limits and approval limits, Identity Management, Information Security Rules, Data Protection Rules, Service management and responsibilities, Exit strategies and procedures and Cloud risk management

Create a Public Cloud Landing Zone with an account vending machine using Infrastructure as Code (IaC)
Establish technical controls and policies to enforce and monitor adherence to Cloud Governance guidelines
Develop account blueprints tailored to internal customer requirements, such as corporate-network-connected or standalone accounts
Transition existing cloud workloads to the designated landing zone infrastructure

Develop a simplified onboarding process to accelerate the ramp-up of new cloud use cases
Implement centralized cost optimization measures, such as purchasing Reserved Instances and Savings Plans
Develop a recommendation engine to support decentralized cost optimization efforts, including right-sizing, garbage collection, and SKU optimization
Build a recommendation engine for security, providing security scoring of cloud use cases against industry compliance standards such as CIS, NIST, and SOC 2