#9 – Monitoring and Logging
What is it?
Monitoring and logging in the cloud offers significantly greater visibility into
the operation of your environment. Monitoring takes on a whole new meaning
when all infrastructures services are accessible via a common API. Monitoring
goes from a reactive service to being a proactive and preventative position.
This is new thinking for many starting their cloud program.
Why is it important for speed?
Monitoring and Logging best practices are critical to achieving agility as well
as realizing the financial and security benefits of cloud. Each cloud provider
has their own “cloud watch” service, however, they are not equal nor are the
processes used to manage them. The MVC monitoring and logging best prac-
tices are the result of successful client engagements where highly agile and
self-healing systems are considered the standard. Without clear visibility into
the behaviors of the systems, and knowing what to do – in code – to correct the
problems, cloud adoption hits a ceiling of agility.
#10 – Continuous Governance and Continuous Cost
Management
What is it?
The faster you run, the better your control systems need to be. Over recent
years, we’ve seen what happens to organizations that move to 5,000, 10,000, or
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