Adding Value to your AWS Cloud

Many companies are discovering and experiencing the value of moving their Dev/Ops to an Amazon Web Services public cloud environment.  AWS offers everything an IT director might want for this environment – pay only for what you use, effective development tools, and elastic performance/capacity.  This has worked so well that in many cases the IT director also migrated production applications to the AWS cloud.

Fast forward a couple of years and today a number of those IT directors are having some second thoughts, particularly around those core production applications that consistently consume a significant amount of resources.  The cost to maintain and run this type of workload in the AWS cloud is often more than anticipated.  In addition, as the IT director worked through the migration of the application portfolio to the AWS cloud, he/she discovered that the public cloud could not always satisfy the stringent security requirements for certain workloads.  These applications, ultimately, had to remain in the private data center.

Maintaining two environments, one AWS based and one that supports the internal applications, becomes costly and challenging.  Fortunately, HPE has a solution that is built specifically for this situation – HPE Helion Eucalyptus. 

Eucalyptus is an open source cloud implementation of most of the core Amazon Web Services.  It is fully AWS-compatible and can be used with many familiar community tools such as Puppet and Chef.  Eucalyptus, then, facilitates the creation of a hybrid cloud that allows development either on premise or in the AWS cloud with the resulting applications deployed either in the private cloud (on premise) or in the public cloud (AWS).  It also provides for easy migration of applications in either direction.

Using HPE Helion Eucalyptus, the IT director can have it all – lower costs, increased IT agility, improved data governance, and accelerated Dev/Test.  Seasonal spikes in demand can be easily and very cost effectively addressed.  Expertise and training can be narrowed down to only one environment (AWS), thus lowering costs.  And, at the end of the day, the IT director avoids lock in, maintains flexibility, and can secure all data at the appropriate level.  This is a win for everybody!