Club Cloud 2021 on Steyn Huizinga

Exploring FinOps KPI's to measure the true value of the cloud

Fri, 05 Nov 2021 14:45:00 +0200

Michel Zitman (Cloud Financial Management Practice Lead at Oblivion) shares his best practices on how to build efficient FinOps KPIs and demonstrates the importance they have on your FinOps Governance. Cloud cost management appears to be a challenging subject in the majority of organizations. From our experience we have concluded that 35% of cloud spend is actually wasted as a result of over-provisioned resources alone. And given the fact that, on a global scale, we are only at the beginning of cloud adoption, it’s time for action.

Keeping up with your cloud knowledge

Fri, 05 Nov 2021 10:45:00 +0200

Livestream session to talk with Maheshwar, Developer Evangelist at AWS, about how to keep up to date with your knowledge on AWS.

Guests: Sohan Maheshwar (AWS)

Best practices for optimizing cost and performance of your Microsoft workloads on AWS

Fri, 05 Nov 2021 09:00:00 +0200

Why is it important to optimize costs? TCO has two main components: infrastructure cost and software licenses cost. The usual optimization scenario is when a customer wants to find compute, storage and licensing configuration that reaches the desired performance level at minimum cost. When you run SQL Server workloads, licensing makes up the majority of the TCO, so this is where you want to optimize. In this session we are going to cover basics of Microsoft licensing on AWS and best practices for compute and licensing optimization of SQL Server workloads on AWS. And finally we will discuss how AWS Optimization and Licensing Assessment (AWS OLA) can help you to see potential cost savings when migrating your Windows Workloads to AWS.

DSM's cloud native journey

Tue, 02 Nov 2021 14:00:00 +0200

Together with Mark Boon (Senior Digital Engineer @ DSM), Andrès Koetsier (cloud consultant at Oblivion) goes in-dept into how DSM adopted a cloud-native way of working to rapidly develop new applications to solve sustainable challenges.

Guests: Mark Boon (DSM) and Andrès Koetsier (Oblivion)

Data & Security in the cloud

Tue, 02 Nov 2021 12:30:00 +0200

Martijn Doedens (Cloud Security Consultant at Oblivion) and Niels Zeilemaker (CTO at GoDataDriven) summarise the current state of secure data processing in the (AWS) cloud. We cover the specific services related to data and the services that are used to standardise secure landing zone, actual risks and threats that our customers face when processing big data on AWS and which configurations (aka best practices) you should always implement.

Securing your secrets in the cloud

Tue, 02 Nov 2021 12:00:00 +0200

Have you spotted access keys in code? Putting it directly in your code might not be a good idea. Maybe you saw that Kubernetes offers secrets for this. Have you found your Kubernetes secrets to be readable by everyone? So where do you put your secrets in a secure way? In this session we will look at various solutions, such as Hashicorp Vault, Kubernetes, and solutions offered by AWS.

Threat detection and response in the cloud

Tue, 02 Nov 2021 11:30:00 +0200

In this session we talk about how to do detection and response in the AWS public cloud and what native AWS services can be used to do this. What options are available and what (if any) 3rd party solutions play a role here? If it was up to us, what are the top use cases a security operations.

Compelling reasons to adopt the public cloud

Mon, 01 Nov 2021 16:30:00 +0200

Jeroen van der Leer discusses five main reasons modern organizations choose to adopt the public cloud - and why you should too.

Guests: Jeroen van der Leer (Oblivion)