3 Areas to Consider: Automation, Account Sprawl, Savings

Eric Crump, senior vice president, AWS North American Practice, AllCloud, a managed service provider that teams with AWS and Salesforce:

When I think about “under the radar” cloud opportunities, three things come to mind. The first is “moved-to-managed.” It is hard to believe but some cloud-native companies that went early to the cloud are already starting to discuss retiring technology debt. … [T]his specifically refers to early adopters or companies with fast growth. Their design patterns were heavily focused on EC2 and standard RDS on EC2 standard compute instances. This also included large backlogs of automation work that still needs to be done. Helping clients move to a more cloud-services architecture and focus on true end-to-end automation is a real need for the market.

The second item is cloud account sprawl. As the enterprise cloud footprint grows for an organization, so does the complexity of the structure of their account numbers, region, organizations, security and complex cost analysis, and more. To manage this, organizations can consider moving to a master control panel that provides organizational governance.

… Lastly, organizations need to consider how they will save on overall technology spend. One area that much of the market is unaware of is that there are other ways to lower your cloud spend beyond cost optimization. You can also lower your overall corporate software spend. By leveraging the cloud provider’s technology procurement portals, you can lower your vendor software spend and your cloud provider spend.