Public Cloud Operating Model

EducationEquip teams with knowledge of public cloud services and capabilities, including technical overview, use cases, and current state review. Lay the foundation for a change management plan that covers organizational, operational, and financial perspectives.

Accounts & SubscriptionsCapture the objectives, success factors,

assumptions, and dependencies necessary to design the right account and

subscription structures. Build an enterprise scale account architecture, with integration to common core services while

planning for growth.

Network DesignDetermine virtual networking design, including public cloud connectivity to the enterprise network to support high availability back to on-premises, and data locality. Account for network security and end-user experience to applications.

ComputeArchitect the public cloud compute

landscape, including the instance types/sizes, compute storage, security and governance controls, operational

management, high availability and fault tolerance. Plan how to manage

StorageArchitect storage needs and storage architecture through naming convention, tagging, and operational controls. Begin to architect cloud storage to align with existing needs like disaster recovery, as well as future demands like PaaS.

Application ArchitectureArchitect and configure cloud native

infrastructure services and security for applications. Optimize the cloud environment,

including network and performance optimization, based on the AWS / Azure

services being utilized in the stack.

Identity ManagementImplement authentication services such as Active Directory and configure domain services. Architect integrations to existing on-premises authentication services and cloud-native users under the same identity management umbrella.

Platform SecurityDetermine platform security and operations

requirements through review of the required security, governance and policy

controls across services, as well as logging and auditing. Ensure that the security

posture aligns with the control, resource, and data planes of the public cloud.

GovernanceEstablish cloud governance policies as they relate to change management, lifecycle management, and asset management. Set naming standards and conduct resource tagging. Ensure automated policy controls are in place to main required security posture.

Operations & MonitoringArchitect, configure, and manage

requirements for activity monitoring and logging, including selection of

monitoring tools and metrics. Update your operational model to support and

align with public cloud use cases.

Systems Management & AutomationMaintain efficiency and consistency of the cloud environment, including infrastructure as code management and creating of deployment templates. Create an operational plan to keep the public cloud environment up-to-date for both new deployments and continuous patches and image creation.

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Establish the right foundation for your public cloud journey. AHEAD's Public Cloud Operating Model consists of 11 pillars, each

of which can be tailored to your AWS or Azure environments.