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Conclusion - Management and Governance Cloud Environment Guide

Conclusion

The M&G Guide recommends a foundational set of eight functions that are needed to configure and build cloud-ready environments. We believe that by following the recommendations outlined in this guide, you will be able to set up your cloud environment for scalability and create what we call migration-ready environments. Deploying the eight capabilities covered in this guide in an interoperable manner will also enable you to realize cost-efficiencies while scaling workloads on AWS. This will help you improve your cloud value, and more importantly increase the speed to achieving value for your customers.

We have learned from customers migrating thousands of applications to AWS that they achieve success through complementing scaling with the progressive adoption of management and governance capabilities. The M&G Guide provides prescriptive guidance on how to accelerate value from these phases with recommended AWS M&G services and Technology Partner solutions powered by AWS services.

As you launch production workloads in your environments, we recommend that in addition to this guide, you also evaluate your AWS environments using the AWS Well-Architected Framework, which describes in detail how you can monitor, manage, and operate production workloads on AWS. As you work towards building and deploying production workloads on AWS, we recommend reviewing the Well-Architected Lens whitepapers as well.

For support implementing this guidance, or for assistance with building the foundational elements described in this guide, we recommend that you review the Cloud Environment Workshop and the offerings provided by AWS Professional Services, including the AWS Control Tower Partners program.

If you are seeking help to operate your workloads in AWS following this guidance, AWS Managed Services (AMS) can help you to use AWS services using a growing library of automations, configurations and runbooks. AMS can augment your operational capabilities as a short-term accelerator or a long-term solution, letting you focus on transforming your applications and businesses in the cloud. AMS provides an operating model for your AWS fleet using detective guardrails, monitoring, security, and incident management best practices for your workloads and environments. AMS is available with two operations plans that offer specific sets of features with differing levels of service, technical capabilities, requirements, price and restrictions. AMS Accelerate helps you operate the day-to-day infrastructure management of your AWS environments; AMS Advanced extends AMS Accelerate to also include additional services such as landing zone management, infrastructure changes and provisioning, access management and endpoint security. You can also extend these plans with additional capabilities using Operations on Demand. Choosing a plan to meet your specific scale and environments can help you to proactively accelerate your scale with AWS.

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