Your Cloud Enablement Engine (CEE) provides products and shared services
to your internal customers. These products and services accelerate cloud
adoption while keeping adoption sustainable and secure.
There are two key components to your Cloud Enablement Engine:
> Cloud Business Office (CBO): The CBO provides products or services for
business and financial management and governance and ongoing train-
ing, as well as change management to ensure the organization success-
fully embraces adapting to life in the cloud.
> Cloud Platform Engineering (CPE): The CPE team configures and
codifies the AWS platform to align with enterprise standards for
architecture, operations, security, and finance. CPE then packages
and continuously improves these standards as self-service deployable
products and consumable services.
These products and shared services add up to a large responsibility for the
Cloud Enablement Engine. That said, you don't (and shouldn't) build it all at
once. At AWS, we frequently say, "think big, but start small." Start with a single,
small "Cloud Foundation Team" made up of a product owner, financial
analyst, organization change management specialist, and engineering manager
and include architects and engineers who have the domain expertise to design
and build products related to Platform, Operations, and Security.
SAP Concur started small and independently with individual teams that
embraced the pure DevOps model. These highly effective agents of change
helped create the organizational pressure to move fast. Cameron Etezadi,
Chief Architect of the company, is quick to point out that he doesn't consider
the instantiation of a Cloud Enablement Engine to be the endpoint, either.
"Change is the new normal."
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AWS resources to help you get the most value from
the cloud faster:
Accelerate Large-Scale Migrations >
Derisking Enterprise Migration with AWS Managed Services >
Watch the video to learn more about CEE >
Resources to help you establish a
Cloud Enablement Engine:
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