Sam Elmalak

After working with thousands of customers, AWS has determined a minimum baseline that customers need to have in their environment as they mature through their cloud journey. Having all the components in your environment to deploy, operate, and govern your workloads allows you to efficiently meet your customers’ needs and focus on key differentiators for your business.

In this chalk talk, learn the basic capabilities needed to establish a foundational cloud environment (one that meets business requirements and also allows for future expansion). Dive deep into a mental model for establishing a cloud foundation and a guided path approach to designing, implementing, and ultimately operating the environment.

According to Gartner, 80% of enterprises are planning data center closures by 2025, versus 10% today. Join this chalk talk to learn best practices from cloud foundations and the AWS Well-Architected Framework Management and Governance Lens on the importance of having a well-architected AWS environment for migrations, operational efficiency, and the ability to scale in meeting your business needs.

Foundational capabilities are critical and must be established to set the stage for a successful migration to the AWS Cloud. This session dives deep into functional areas such as security, operations, governance, and resiliency, and it covers skills, processes, and tools that you should consider as you prepare to migrate.

A key element of your AWS environment is having a framework to provide resource isolation, separation of duties, and clear billing separation (i.e., a landing zone). In this session, we discuss updates to multi-account strategy best practices for establishing your landing zone, new guidance for building organizational unit structures, and a historical context.