CCoE engineering and business functions
The CCoE functional scope can be separated into engineering functions and business functions. Clearly define which functions are in scope of the CCoE based on specific goals and priorities.
Engineering functions
The engineering functions of the CCoE help your organization maximize the technical benefits of using AWS Cloud services. They relate to the implementation of a series of functions and best practices reflecting your technical knowledge:
Cloud infrastructure
Core networking capabilities to integrate the corporate network with AWS
Setup of AWS Control Tower landing zones, accounts, AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) roles and policies, and federation with the corporate directory
Infrastructure as code (IaC) using standardized, automated deployments of integrated primitives with configuration management
Architecture alignment
Development and publication of cloud reference architectures aligned with the enterprise architecture
Breakdown and analysis of technical requirements mapped against cloud reference architectures and the roadmap
Enterprise cloud vision, strategy, roadmap, and delivery
Operations
Monitoring infrastructure, and providing best practices and operational insights
Resiliency mechanisms and best practices to provide patch management, backup, and restore capabilities
Providing CI/CD infrastructure, with best practices for building development, security, and operations (DevSecOps) teams
Software delivery, including ownership of the AWS Marketplace listing process
Security, risk, and compliance
Management of cloud workload security, including threat and vulnerability management, security information and event management, IAM policy management, network security, and secrets and encryption
Management of security incident response, quarantine, analysis, and forensics
Risk management, addressing the security, risk, and compliance needs of cloud migrations
Compliance management, providing advisory services on the implementation of robust security, risk, and compliance solutions for the cloud migrations
Technical excellence
Capability uplift, including training and certification to demonstrate required knowledge and skills obtained
Exploration and expertise in new technical areas relevant for the core business
Creation of training plans for all personas in the organizational business units
Cloud optimization
Optimizing the performance and cost-effectiveness of the organization's cloud environment
Identifying opportunities to improve performance, reduce costs, and right-size resources
Business functions
The business functions of the CCoE help your organization accelerate your business and optimize the benefits of using AWS Cloud services:
Sales cycle acceleration
Creation of field ready kits, including first-call decks, sales briefs, and solution briefs
Support for the entire sales cycle, from lead generation to contract signing
Enablement, including awareness sessions and sales-team coaching on cloud solutions
Marketing
Creation of case studies, blog posts, videos, and technical content that supports other marketing activities (for example, advertising, email marketing, positioning, influencer marketing)
Events to increase brand awareness and generate leads by supporting the organization of and participation in events with AWS
Delivery support
Migration of legacy services toward cloud-native services, optimizing the new application's user-onboarding process
Implementation of agile delivery frameworks and removal of roadblocks
Cloud services expertise to support deployments, consolidate lessons learned, and help identify risks and opportunities
Finance management
Continuous optimization of cloud asset allocation compared with usage, and implementation of AWS tools for reporting and cost optimization
Self-service dashboards, such as the Cost Intelligence Dashboard
, so that external customers have visibility into the cost of your solution, and internal stakeholders can access cloud-consumption metrics Invoice management – Breakdown of the cloud invoice to allocate spend at the business-unit level
Project Management Office (PMO)
Market studies and technology watch to support portfolio management
Project management, including identification of synergies between different cloud projects
Centralized governance with a view of all cloud initiatives
Coordination of all engagements with AWS. For AWS Partners, acquisition of specific competencies and service delivery designation from the AWS Partner Network.
