Perform TCO analysis Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) assessment is performed by many enterprises to understand the financial impact before migrating to a different infrastructure. AWS cloud offers pay-as-you-go model, security, reliability, elasticity and much more with significant financial benefits and lowers the TCO of customer applications. Learn the cost modeling of AWS cloud services and understand the details to effectively compare the costs with on-premise infrastructure. The TCO analysis efforts can be directed specific to a project, an individual service or application or overall IT operations.
Key Activities Kickoff Call Discovery Workshop Identify Key measurements, Requirements and Constraints Collect Contractual, Infrastructure and Financial structures Present findings and suggestions
Benefits
Understand the cost modeling of AWS cloud services and ways to optimize the costs when migrating to AWS Right sizing the AWS infrastructure components based on the application Realize the financial impact of migrating applications to AWS cloud by comparing the costs with on-premise infrastructure Leverage AWS TCO expertise, methods, and partner technologies to optimize the costs.
Deliverables*
Storage TCO (5 days) o Customer storage requirements review o Existing storage infrastructure costs review o Guidelines to effectively compare on-premise storage costs with AWS cloud storage services o Customer centric re-usable TCO comparison tool Applications TCO (5 days) o Customer application stacks review o Applications architecture on AWS cloud review o Models to optimize the costs for operations and usage o Cost analysis tool to understand the costs when migrated to AWS cloud IT Operations TCO (15 days) o Identifying the patterns in application stacks o Backups and restoration policies review o Disaster recovery architecture and costs review o Identify the costs related to change management, code management, instance management etc. Prepare assessment results (10-20 days)* o Guidelines to perform TCO analysis o TCO methodology to identify the expected costs when migrating to AWS cloud o Case study of cost comparison between different infrastructure and application architectures
Target Audience Key business stakeholders, CFO and financial controllers, IT Directors, Enterprise Architects, IT and business Operations Managers Optionally, may include joint efforts with trusted System Integration partners and Software Vendors. To learn more, contact your Amazon Web Services Account Manager * Number of days is estimated, and may vary by environment size and other organization-specific details. Jan 2014
Stakeholders Financial controllers Business Owners Application Owners Solutions Architects IT Leads
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