# CCoE engineering and business functions
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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
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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
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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](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/whitepapers/latest/cost-optimization-laying-the-foundation/reporting-cost-optimization-tools.html)
  + Self-service dashboards, such as the [Cost Intelligence Dashboard](https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws-cloud-financial-management/a-detailed-overview-of-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.