Cloudformation Toolkit

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Implement tools that integrate with your organizationChange Controlplatform providing greater transparency on the changes adhering to the audit/compliance guidelines.

More Uses of the CloudFormation Toolkit:

  • Be accountable for leading highly available and fault tolerant enterprise and web scaleSoftware Deployments

  • Be accountable for deployingInfrastructure as Codeusing configuration orchestration tools as Terraform or CloudFormation.

  • CreateInfrastructure as Code manage configuration and deployment of large server clusters, Terraform, serverless framework, and CloudFormation.

  • Maintain solutions that contribute to the automation of code/infrastructure changes.

  • Ensure you thrive on inter disciplinary teams, and value different perspectives and high levels of communication and collaboration.

  • Collaborate withProduct Developmentteam to identify, diagnose, and resolve any platform faults.

  • Ensure you suggest; build and deployCloud Infrastructureusing Terraform or CloudFormation and develop scripts for future reuse.

  • Head: design solution independent architecture models that mapBusiness Servicesto CloudFormation application stacks.

  • Ensure you not only understand not onlyInfrastructure as Codeis, and also know itsBest Practices

  • Ensure you account for;Build Automationand highly redundant systems to avoid phone calls after hours.

  • Formulate: design and implement monitoring and alarming to ensure a highly available environment.

  • Be able to implementConfiguration Managementsolutions as CloudFormation or Terraform.

  • LeadRequirements Analysisand collaborate with internal teams to enhance and improveSoftware Designand architecture.

  • Supervise: if you feel there are benefits to moving to technology x, you have the freedom to do so.

  • Be accountable for writingInfrastructure as Code(AzureResource Management Terraform, CloudFormation).

  • Deploy infrastructure to multipleCloud Environmentsusing DevOps methodologies.

  • Ensure you overhaul; lead with extensive knowledge in creating CloudFormation/Terraform scripts.

  • Solidify expertise withCloud Security understand the principle ofLeast Privilege

  • Help design, implement, and operate various aspects of multiple systems, operating environments, and software.

  • Drive: work closely with Architects to assure all systems are in line with your strategy and.

  • Be accountable for building and deployingSecurity Infrastructureand automatingSecurity Operationsfor customers.

  • Develop: actively lead high levelTeam Activitiesas architecture orProcess Improvements

  • Contribute to application scaling, configuration, optimization,Lifecycle Managementwith application and dev teams.

  • Develop and implement systems usingInfrastructure as CodeCloudFormation, AzureResource Management etc.

  • Drive: learn about infrastructure automation, iterative deployment practices, and how to build confidence in rapid deployments.

  • Create standards and tools that enableFaster Deliveryof software features with governance enforcement of coding andTest Standards

  • Initiate: research areas of improvements and design/implement enhancements working with the cloud DevOps andProduct Developmentteams.

  • Ensure you look to automate manual operations, and cringe at the thought of making changes in a web based console.

 

Save time,, empower your teams and effectively upgrade your processes with access to this practical Cloudformation Toolkit and guide. Address common challenges with best-practice templates, step-by-stepWork Plansand maturity diagnostics for any Cloudformation related project.

Download the Toolkit and in Three Steps you will be guided from idea to implementation results.

The Toolkit contains the following practical and powerful enablers with new and updated Cloudformation specific requirements:


STEP 1: Get your bearings

Start with...

  • The latest quick edition of the Cloudformation Self Assessment book in PDF containing 49 requirements to perform a quickscan, get an overview and share with stakeholders.

Organized in aData Drivenimprovement cycle RDMAICS (Recognize, Define, Measure, Analyze, Improve, Control and Sustain), check the…

  • Example pre-filled Self-Assessment Excel Dashboard to get familiar with results generation

Then find your goals...


STEP 2: Set concrete goals, tasks, dates and numbers you can track

Featuring 999 new and updated case-based questions, organized into seven core areas ofProcess Design this Self-Assessment will help you identify areas in which Cloudformation improvements can be made.

Examples; 10 of the 999 standard requirements:

  1. What should you stop doing?

  2. Think about the people you identified for your Cloudformation project and the project responsibilities you would assign to them, what kind of training do you think they would need to perform these responsibilities effectively?

  3. How do you keep the momentum going?

  4. How do your controls stack up?

  5. What is the scope of Cloudformation?

  6. WhatNew Servicesof functionality will be implemented next with Cloudformation?

  7. What stupid rule would you most like to kill?

  8. What are the performance and scale of the Cloudformation tools?

  9. Can you break it down?

  10. Is the suppliers process defined and controlled?


Complete the self assessment, on your own or with a team in a workshop setting. Use the workbook together with the self assessment requirements spreadsheet:

  • The workbook is the latest in-depth complete edition of the Cloudformation book in PDF containing 994 requirements, which criteria correspond to the criteria in...

Your Cloudformation self-assessment dashboard which gives you your dynamically prioritized projects-ready tool and shows your organization exactly what to do next:

  • The Self-Assessment Excel Dashboard; with the Cloudformation Self-Assessment and Scorecard you will develop a clear picture of which Cloudformation areas need attention, which requirements you should focus on and who will be responsible for them:

    • Shows your organization instant insight in areas for improvement: Auto generates reports, radar chart for maturity assessment, insights per process and participant and bespoke, ready to use, RACI Matrix
    • Gives you a professional Dashboard to guide and perform a thorough Cloudformation Self-Assessment
    • Is secure: Ensures offlineData Protectionof your Self-Assessment results
    • Dynamically prioritized projects-readyRACI Matrixshows your organization exactly what to do next:

 

STEP 3: Implement, Track, follow up and revise strategy

The outcomes of STEP 2, the self assessment, are the inputs for STEP 3; Start and manage Cloudformation projects with the 62 implementation resources:

  • 62 step-by-step CloudformationProject ManagementForm Templates covering over 1500 Cloudformation project requirements and success criteria:

Examples; 10 of the check box criteria:

  1. Cost Management Plan: Eac -estimate at completion, what is the total job expected to cost?

  2. Activity Cost Estimates: In which phase of theAcquisition Processcycle does source qualifications reside?

  3. Project Scope Statement: Will all Cloudformation project issues be unconditionally tracked through theIssue Resolutionprocess?

  4. Closing Process Group: Did the CloudformationProject Teamhave enough people to execute the Cloudformation project plan?

  5. Source Selection Criteria: What are the guidelines regarding award without considerations?

  6. Scope Management Plan: AreCorrective Actionstaken when actual results are substantially different from detailed CloudformationProject Plan(variances)?

  7. Initiating Process Group: During which stage of Risk planning are risks prioritized based on probability and impact?

  8. Cost Management Plan: Is your organization certified as a supplier, wholesaler, regular dealer, or manufacturer of corresponding products/supplies?

  9. Procurement Audit: Was a formal review of tenders received undertaken?

  10. Activity Cost Estimates: What procedures are put in place regarding bidding and cost comparisons, if any?

 
Step-by-step and complete CloudformationProject ManagementForms and Templates including check box criteria and templates.

1.0 Initiating Process Group:


2.0 Planning Process Group:


3.0 Executing Process Group:

  • 3.1 Team Member Status Report
  • 3.2 Change Request
  • 3.3 Change Log
  • 3.4 Decision Log
  • 3.5 Quality Audit
  • 3.6 Team Directory
  • 3.7 Team Operating Agreement
  • 3.8Team PerformanceAssessment
  • 3.9 Team Member Performance Assessment
  • 3.10 Issue Log


4.0 Monitoring and Controlling Process Group:

  • 4.1 Cloudformation project Performance Report
  • 4.2 Variance Analysis
  • 4.3 Earned Value Status
  • 4.4 Risk Audit
  • 4.5 Contractor Status Report
  • 4.6 Formal Acceptance


5.0 Closing Process Group:

  • 5.1 Procurement Audit
  • 5.2 Contract Close-Out
  • 5.3 Cloudformation project or Phase Close-Out
  • 5.4 Lessons Learned

 

Results

With this Three Step process you will have all the tools you need for any Cloudformation project with this in-depth Cloudformation Toolkit.

In using the Toolkit you will be better able to:

  • Diagnose Cloudformation projects, initiatives, organizations, businesses and processes using accepted diagnostic standards and practices
  • Implement evidence-basedBest Practicestrategies aligned with overall goals
  • Integrate recent advances in Cloudformation and putProcess Designstrategies into practice according toBest Practiceguidelines

Defining, designing, creating, and implementing a process to solve a business challenge or meet a business objective is the most valuable role; In EVERY company, organization and department.

Unless you are talking a one-time, single-use project within a business, there should be a process. Whether that process is managed and implemented by humans, AI, or a combination of the two, it needs to be designed by someone with a complex enough perspective to ask the right questions. Someone capable of asking the right questions and step back and say, 'What are we really trying to accomplish here? And is there a different way to look at it?'

This Toolkit empowers people to do just that - whether their title is entrepreneur, manager, consultant, (Vice-)President, CxO etc... - they are the people who rule the future. They are the person who asks the right questions to make Cloudformation investments work better.

This Cloudformation All-Inclusive Toolkit enables You to be that person.

 

Includes lifetime updates

Every self assessment comes with Lifetime Updates and Lifetime Free Updated Books. Lifetime Updates is an industry-first feature which allows you to receive verified self assessment updates, ensuring you always have the most accurate information at your fingertips.