Miha Kralj

Enterprises everywhere are adopting new strategies to migrate their applications and systems to the cloud—but many are missing out on its true benefits as a platform for rapid innovation

Creating a comprehensive, accelerated cloud strategy for a complex or federated organization requires a disciplined approach—one that balances the need for centralized governance with the opportunity to innovate across all engineering segments within the enterprise. In this session, will follow the Walt Disney Company’s journey to create an initial cloud value hypothesis and cloud business case, and then develop a structured approach towards cloud migrations and a "cloud-first" operating model.… Show more

Creating a comprehensive, accelerated cloud strategy for a complex or federated organization requires a disciplined approach—one that balances the need for centralized governance with the opportunity to innovate across all engineering segments within the enterprise. In this session, will follow the Walt Disney Company’s journey to create an initial cloud value hypothesis and cloud business case, and then develop a structured approach towards cloud migrations and a "cloud-first" operating model. Attendees learn more about the key implications, risks, and considerations of the company’s cloud transformation program; see examples of reference architectures and implementation guides; and understand the required activities that contributed to the success of the program. The patterns presented are broadly applicable to complex organizations with global aspirations to make the journey to the Cloud. Show less

To kick-start cloud adoption, companies have first to figure out how to deal with four foundation blocks that enable accelerated transformation.

Accenture research shows that 84 percent of executives believe the IT organization is shifting from a traditional service provider to a service broker, offering everything as-a-service.

It’s something that nimbler companies already do. Consider StubHub, the online ticketing service, for example. The company did not develop its own payment capabilities internally. Instead it uses Braintree, a payment gateway provider owned by eBay, to process credit card transactions. Without making these… Show more

Accenture research shows that 84 percent of executives believe the IT organization is shifting from a traditional service provider to a service broker, offering everything as-a-service.

It’s something that nimbler companies already do. Consider StubHub, the online ticketing service, for example. The company did not develop its own payment capabilities internally. Instead it uses Braintree, a payment gateway provider owned by eBay, to process credit card transactions. Without making these types of changes, today’s traditional, hierarchical structure is too rigid to rapidly adopt the new technologies that are constantly evolving. So it’s critical for organizations to tap into an ecosystem of partners allowing for the best of scale and rapid change.

Successful companies will be those that can effectively migrate to a new operating model. The end result: responsive, agile IT organizations that lead the way toward future innovation. Show less

After launching several thousand EC2 instances in the cloud, we've learned that the key to running an IT fleet successfully on AWS is enforcing operational and economic discipline. As AWS service consumption grows, operational costs and overhead shouldn't grow linearly. Instead, IT should encourage new tenants that migrate from data centers to AWS to slowly shift toward a self-service delivery model and adopt the DevOps operations model. Creating and offering an AWS Cloud operations service… Show more

After launching several thousand EC2 instances in the cloud, we've learned that the key to running an IT fleet successfully on AWS is enforcing operational and economic discipline. As AWS service consumption grows, operational costs and overhead shouldn't grow linearly. Instead, IT should encourage new tenants that migrate from data centers to AWS to slowly shift toward a self-service delivery model and adopt the DevOps operations model. Creating and offering an AWS Cloud operations service catalog enables organizations to efficiently take full advantage of AWS' flexibility and modularity. T-Mobile, whose journey to AWS Cloud management started more than 2 years ago, uses a service catalog to enforce operational discipline in the Cloud. Their catalog is custom crafted for each Cloud-based IT workload. This session provides insight into the AWS Cloud operations strategy and its transformation, the creation of a Cloud operations service catalog, and how this approach supports reliable engineering on AWS. Show less

Effective automation depends on adequate insights collected from all the systems relevant to the service experience and business outcome you’re trying to augment. Insights from data is necessary to create opens paths to automated predictions and ultimately using machine learning, or artificial intelligence, as part of a full scope the as-a-service construct.

The AWS Cloud Adoption Framework (CAF) is a structured guidance to support successful adoption of cloud platform in organizations of different types and sizes. The CAF enables organizations to maximize the positive impact and value that can be gained by adopting cloud platform. The CAF is based on experience gained in assisting many organizations to successfully plan, strategize and adopt the cloud platform. Additionally, the CAF references industry-wide best practices and frameworks and… Show more

The AWS Cloud Adoption Framework (CAF) is a structured guidance to support successful adoption of cloud platform in organizations of different types and sizes. The CAF enables organizations to maximize the positive impact and value that can be gained by adopting cloud platform. The CAF is based on experience gained in assisting many organizations to successfully plan, strategize and adopt the cloud platform. Additionally, the CAF references industry-wide best practices and frameworks and methodologies such as COBIT, TOGAF and ITIL, and shows how they can support cloud adoption. Show less

Taking a "cloud first" approach requires a different approach than you probably had to consider for your initial few workloads in the cloud. You'll be diving into the deep end of hybrid environments, and that means taking a broad view of your IT strategy, architecture, and organizational design.
Through our experience in helping enterprises navigate this change, AWS has developed the Cloud Adoption Framework (CAF) to assist with planning, creating, managing, and supporting the shift. In… Show more

Taking a "cloud first" approach requires a different approach than you probably had to consider for your initial few workloads in the cloud. You'll be diving into the deep end of hybrid environments, and that means taking a broad view of your IT strategy, architecture, and organizational design.
Through our experience in helping enterprises navigate this change, AWS has developed the Cloud Adoption Framework (CAF) to assist with planning, creating, managing, and supporting the shift. In this session, we cover how the CAF offers practical guidance and comprehensive guidelines to enterprise organizations, particularly around roles, governance, and efficiency. Show less