Name: Tagging for AWS and Azure to Gain Control and Visibility
Start: 2018-03-22T18:00:00Z
End: 2018-03-22T18:00:27.000Z
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We are comprehensive cloud management for modern enterprises, services providers, and the public sector. CloudCheckr software enables clients to optimize costs, security, and compliance, effectively managing their multi-cloud ecosystems from a unified view. With 550+ Best Practice Checks, CloudCheckr simplifies the way IT, finance, and security teams improve cloud governance, strengthen security posture, ensure compliance and automate key tasks across Amazon Web Service (AWS), Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud.

Applying traditional data center practices might not necessarily result in similar cost savings once you’ve moved to the cloud. In data center operations, you’re generally expected to build in excess capacity from day one to handle even your most demanding periods such as year-end or Black Friday.

In the cloud, business can meet periods of high demand immediately thanks to the ability to scale based on actual needs, instead of attempting to predict excess capacity ahead of time. Join experts from CloudCheckr, the leading cloud management platform, and Datadog, the essential monitoring solution for cloud applications, to learn techniques you can use to prosper in the cloud.

Attendees will learn: 
- The differences between optimizing for the Data Center vs. the Public Cloud
- The importance of and options for Multi-Cloud Monitoring
- How to integrate Best of Breed technology for robust cloud optimization

Withstand Demand with a Fully Optimized Cloud Practice for Your Business

Migrating storage to the cloud is one of the quickest ways to start leveraging cloud technology. Amazon Web Services (AWS), for example, offers customizable cloud storage options to suit your needs, such as Elastic Block Store (EBS), EFS, and S3. It’s no surprise then that storage costs represent a significant portion of your monthly cloud bill. 

To make the most of your AWS cloud storage, you should aim to strike the right balance between cost and capabilities and eliminating unnecessary waste. That means optimizing the size, type, and performance of storage—just like you would EC2 instances. 

It’s important to understand the use cases for AWS EBS, EFS, and S3 in order to optimize AWS storage for your business. Watch CloudCheckr’s webinar, “AWS Storage Optimization: Reduce Cloud Waste and Improve Performance” to learn the differences between storage types and how you can help your organization save big on cloud storage services this year. 

In this webinar, attendees will learn:
- Different storage types from a cost and performance perspective
- Managing snapshots
- How to optimize usage

About CloudCheckr
Only CloudCheckr delivers total visibility, making the most complex cloud infrastructure easy to manage. CloudCheckr customers deploy our SaaS platform to secure, manage, and govern the most sensitive environments in the world—from government agencies to large enterprises to MSPs. CloudCheckr’s industry-leading solutions include Cost Management, FinanceManager, Cloud Security, Total Compliance, Inventory & Utilization, and Cloud Automation.

AWS Storage Optimization: Reduce Cloud Waste and Improve Performance

Amazon Web Services now offers a discount model called AWS Savings Plans. This program offers flexible pricing for EC2 Instances and AWS Fargate in exchange for a usage commitment (dollars/hour) over a set time period of 1 or 3 years. 

With this resource purchasing model now on the table, businesses are comparing Reserved Instances (RIs) vs AWS Savings Plans to find out which model offers the deeper discount and whether that makes sense for their global investment strategy. In this webinar, we cover the use cases for RIs, AWS Savings Plans, and Spot Instances, and how they impact your overall cloud cost optimization efforts. 

Join CloudCheckr’s Director of Product Marketing, Todd Bernhard for “How to Lower Your AWS Bill with RIs, AWS Savings Plans, and Spot Instances”. Understand how to use RIs vs AWS Savings Plans to lower our cloud bill, the percentage discounts you actually receive, and where Spot Instances fit into the picture.

How to Lower Your AWS Bill with RIs, AWS Savings Plans, and Spot Instances

Join this live panel discussion with experts during AWS re:Invent for an in-depth look at the future of cloud, application security, and DevSecOps. Tune into this interactive Q&A session with world renowned Cloud, DevOps, and Security leaders while they discuss the following:

- The challenges organizations are facing with compliance and DevSecOps
- How security can be an integral part of the DevOps practice to solve these challenges
- DevOps growth in the enterprise 
- Challenges with using traditional security tools/processes and collaboration through automation
- Fostering shared responsibility among Security and DevOps

Moderator:
Michelle McLean, Vice President, Marketing, StackRox

Panelists:
Ben Saunders, VP Consulting EMEA, Contino
Gregory Carpenter, Product Owner – Cloud, Center for Internet Security
Brian O’Keefe, Software Architect, CloudCheckr

From DevOps to DevSecOps: Cloud, Security and Compliance

Join this live panel discussion with thought leaders during AWS re:Invent for an in-depth discussion on how to properly design your data center in a hybrid cloud environment, and how hyperconnected data centers can transform enterprise IT. Tune into this interactive Q&A session with world renowned Cloud, Data Center and Infrastructure experts while they discuss the following:

- Hybrid cloud solutions to power your digital transformation - what are the key drivers?
- What edge computing means for next-generation data centers
- The importance of network connectivity in a multi-cloud and hybrid cloud data center
- On-premise vs. cloud data centers and the future of colocation

Moderator:
Erik Kaulberg, Vice President, Infinidat

Panelists:
Yvonne Deir, Strategic Director of Sales, CoreSite
John Capello, VP of Product Strategy, Nasuni
Travis Rehl, Senior Director of Product, CloudCheckr

The Future of the Hyperconnected Data Center

Enterprises and public sector organizations are moving to the cloud to create competitive advantages with flexibility and innovation. Yet companies tend to overlook the security and availability functions of the third-party platforms they invest in.  

Security breaches and downtime can be extremely costly—resulting in idle users, administrators, and delays in addressing pricey overruns or security vulnerabilities.

That’s why a highly secure, highly available cloud management platform (CMP) is so important. When choosing a CMP, organizations should look for multiple availability zones and multi-region redundancy to minimize downtime, along with security built around industry standards like NIST 800-53. 

The new High-Security environment from CloudCheckr includes all of the above, as well as AI-based threat detection and daily automated internal vulnerability scans. These standards are required for federal, state, and local government. Plus, a highly secure environment also appeals to enterprises looking to leverage government-mandated standards.

In this webinar, CloudCheckr Director of Product, Travis Rehl, will introduce CloudCheckr High Security environment and contrast it with the entry-level offering, including appropriate use cases and answering your questions.

Manage Cloud Security & Availability with CloudCheckr High-Security Environment

Gartner predicts the public cloud services industry will grow exponentially through 2022. Businesses of all sizes are migrating data center workloads to cloud environments thanks to providers like Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft Azure. 

However, migrating all data to the cloud is not feasible for particular companies or government agencies. They can certainly reduce their dependence on data centers, but might never move fully into cloud. For some enterprises and public sector agencies, utilizing a hybrid cloud infrastructure may offer greater capabilities, increased cost savings, and better overall security. 

Nevertheless, hybrid cloud users can face some logistical nightmares. They’re challenged with collecting IT cost data from multiple sources, including public clouds and local resources, often resorting to spreadsheet accounting and other manual processes. 

In this webinar, CloudCheckr Director of Product, Travis Rehl, alongside Product Marketing Director, Todd Bernhard, lead an open discussion on the logistics of managing a hybrid cloud infrastructure. They also introduce CloudCheckr FinanceManager, an easy-to-implement solution for IT financial managers and managed service providers (MSPs) to charge and account for the cost of hybrid workloads.

Gaining Financial Control of Enterprise IT Costs in Hybrid Cloud Infrastructure

The more users gain access to a company’s cloud environments, the more important it becomes to track what each user is doing, what they’re spending, and what data they’re accessing. But managing accounts—and their restrictions—for multiple users across multiple cloud platforms can turn into a nightmare. 

This lack of insight puts large-scale enterprises that manage hundreds of accounts at risk of data breaches and audit failures. Luckily, total visibility across multiple cloud infrastructures is possible when an IT team is armed with the right set of tools and an understanding of effective cloud management. 

In this webinar, attendees will learn how to improve their security posture and educate IT teams on managing cloud governance with providers like Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft Azure. Join Jeff Valentine, CloudCheckr's Chief Product Officer, and Sean Atkinson, CIS' Chief Information Security Officer, as they discuss cloud governance, key players in cloud security teams, security best practices, and automation.

Defend Your Clouds: Make Your IT Team Your Strongest Security Asset

The Public Cloud may be new to many enterprises, but it has been around long enough for Best Practices to have been established. As organisations migrate to the cloud, they do not have to start from scratch. They can leverage policies and frameworks established by cloud leaders and avoid repeating the mistakes of the early adopters. It is also important to get buy-in from different departments, so establishing a Cloud Center of Excellence is highly recommended.

Attendees of this CloudCheckr webinar will learn what a Cloud Center of Excellence (CCoE) is and who should participate in one. They will also understand the pillars of the AWS Well-Architected Framework (WAF) and discover how CloudCheckr can help establish both a CCoE and WAF.

Building a Cloud Center of Excellence Using the AWS Well-Architected Framework

Learn how to make your cloud business stand out. Achieving compliance and certifications in the cloud is a clear distinction with buyers and gives your company an edge on the competition. But compiling years of historical data and reports, as well as aligning various internal teams isn’t easy. 

One of the most stringent industries dealing with sensitive data is healthcare. Today, most of the healthcare industry will only work with HITRUST-certified and HIPAA-compliant vendors. To make matters more urgent, Gartner analysts predict the majority of healthcare providers will follow suit within two years. 

There’s still time to achieve early compliance and separate your business from the rest. In this compliance mapping webinar, CloudCheckr cloud management platform (CMP) and PTP, an AWS Advanced Consulting Partner, will walk you through the steps to achieving total compliance. This session covers HIPAA, NIST 800-53 security framework, and FedRAMP, among others. Learn how a real customer, on their pursuit of a HITRUST audit, identified areas they needed to remediate, as well as how they managed crucial reporting that provided critical to the audit. 

Viewers are encouraged to participate in a live Q&A at the end of the webinar.

How to Achieve Cloud Compliance and Give Your Business a Competitive Edge

Strategic use of the cloud is a must for today's modern businesses. But building a scalable, cost-effective, and profitable infrastructure with today’s leading cloud provider, Amazon Web Services (AWS), requires expertise. 

Join CloudCheckr, the #1 independent cloud management platform (CMP), and EagleDream, an APN Advanced Consulting Partner, for a free webinar. Expert and AWS APN Ambassador Scott Weber discuss how EagleDream builds secure, agile, and efficient AWS environments for enterprises. And CloudCheckr Product Marketing Manager, Todd Bernhard, covers cloud optimisation strategies and the future of enterprise cloud.

Building in the Cloud with AWS: Make the Move, Not the Mistakes

Cloud-based enterprise data can be a magnet for malicious security threats, from attackers both within and outside organizations. Yet, leading cloud providers, like Amazon Web Services (AWS), make it clear they are not fully responsible for maintaining your organization’s cloud security and compliance. Companies that adopt cloud must understand this Shared Responsibility Model and close the data security loop themselves. 

Join our free webinar with CloudHesive, an AWS Premier Consulting Partner, to learn how to build a highly secure cloud environment on AWS. Our experts, CloudCheckr Product Marketing Manager Todd Bernhard, and CloudHesive Chief Technology Officer Patrick Hannah will also discuss SecOps strategies for maintaining a secure infrastructure.

Build and Manage a Highly Secure Cloud Environment on AWS

In the next three years, Gartner predicts the market size and growth of the cloud services industry at nearly three times the growth of overall IT services. With leading cloud providers, like Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft Azure, creating workloads and purchasing instances is easy. However, managing resource costs in your new, growing cloud infrastructure can quickly become difficult and time-consuming. 

This free webinar first dives into common post-migration challenges and the reasons businesses overspend on the cloud. Guest host Ashley Tarver, from Cloudera, will join CloudCheckr Product Marketing Manager, Todd Bernhard, to discuss business solutions for delivering on the promise of AWS and Azure cloud cost savings. 

Our experts will also host a live Q&A session at the end to answer your specific use case, as well as offer tips and tricks for optimizing your company’s cloud environment.

How to Deliver on the Promise of AWS and Azure Cloud Cost Savings

Since the adoption of public cloud services, IT infrastructures have become dynamic and complex environments. Now, users can spin up new cloud resources in seconds, and make snap decisions on instance types, storage types, and payment mechanisms. And while scalable and reliable, these new processes present a challenge. Individuals can mistakenly enable services that result in huge surprise AWS bills, or forget about an oversised Azure or AWS instance and end up paying for it month after month. 

Cloud cost optimisation is the process of adjusting your monthly cloud usage based on a set of cost-saving best practices. Some of these best practices include rightsising instances to scale, and eliminating underused resources. Hear from the experts at CloudCheckr and N2WS/Veeam to learn more about “Cloud Pricing and Cost Optimization: How to Avoid Unexpected Fees"

Cloud Pricing and Cost Optimisation: How to Avoid Unexpected AWS Fees

Investing in the right instance types to suit your needs is critical to your organization’s success in the cloud. However, the wide range of instance purchasing options across leading cloud providers—Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud Platform—can lead to underutilizing, wasting, and overspending on improperly used resources. 

In this free webinar, CloudCheckr Product Marketing Manager, Todd Bernhard, and Vice President of Architecture at Spotinst.com, Kevin McGrath, discuss purchasing strategies for Reserved, Spot, Low Priority, and Preemptible Instances. Our experts cover key differentiators between instance types, successful use cases, and the underrated value of Spot Instances.

Viewers are encouraged to participate in a live Q&A at the end of the webinar.

Purchasing Strategies for Reserved, Spot, Low Priority and Preemptible Instances

When it comes to the cloud, human error is one of the biggest causes of security vulnerabilities. From misconfigured account permissions to accidentally making an S3 bucket public, human mistakes happen. But it is possible to prevent them in your organization's cloud infrastructure. 

To achieve a highly-secure, continuously compliant environment, your organization must adopt self-healing automation and adhere to standard security best practices. 

Join our experts from CloudCheckr and the Center for Internet Security (CIS) in this free webinar about cloud automation and security best practices. Attendees will understand why CIS Controls and CIS Benchmarks are important standards to meet, especially for public sector organizations in the United States. Learn how to accurately identify, develop, validate, promote, and sustain best practice solutions for cyber defense in your cloud.

Automation and Security Best Practices in the Cloud with CIS and CloudCheckr

Achieving cloud compliance in a given industry requires a thorough, risk-based approach. And it's possible with the right strategy. It is important to be aware—and cautious—of the way data protection laws vary between states, countries, and government bodies. 

In healthcare, HITRUST and HIPAA cloud compliance is highly desirable as most payers will only work with HITRUST certified vendors today. Analysts predict the majority of providers will follow suit within two years. Earning certifications like HIPAA Compliance on Amazon Web Service (AWS) can give your organization a competitive edge. 

Learn how to earn AWS compliance certifications easily with the security strategies and best practices covered in this webinar. CloudCheckr Product Marketing Manager Todd Bernhard, and Cloudticity Founder and CEO Gerry Miller, discuss ways to leverage technology, automation, and cloud economics to achieve compliance while reducing costs and ongoing maintenance requirements.

Easy Cloud Compliance Strategies for HIPAA and HITRUST Certifications

Unlike in the Data Center, where an enterprise had complete responsibility for security, the Cloud is different. There is a Shared Responsibility Model. Cloud providers like Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud take responsibility for items under their control, but customers must secure their data and applications. Fortunately, there are hundreds of Best Practice Checks provided by CloudCheckr, that can help automate this. Additionally, those checks are mapped to compliance standards and CloudCheckr's Total Compliance scores an organization according to 35 distinct regulations including CIS, HIPAA, PCI DSS, NIST and more.

Just because an enterprise achieves a level of compliance, that doesn't guarantee it will stay there. CloudCheckr's Change Monitoring, combined with Custom Alerts, can help keep a cloud secure. Attendees will learn how CloudCheckr's 550+ Best Practice Checks can help, including automation via Fix Now, Always Fix and Request Fix.

CloudCheckr is a robust Cloud Management Platform that, in addition to Security & Compliance, delivers Cost Optimization, Automation, and Invoicing capabilities. Look for our other tutorials on those topics.

Live Tutorial: Stay Secure and Compliant in the Cloud with CloudCheckr

Maintaining accountability across an ephemeral IaaS infrastructure can be a challenge for Finance and DevOps teams. With the proper tagging strategy and implementation, organizations can manage cloud costs around their EC2 instances and resources.

Join CloudCheckr March 22nd at 2 pm Eastern, 11 am Pacific for a live webinar discussing proactive tactics and tips to execute an AWS and Azure tagging strategy as your organization scales, including:

- Tagging rule guidelines to gain visibility and control over your asset inventory
- Cost allocation reports and tools to understand cloud expenses and recognize optimization opportunities
- How CloudCheckr can help enforce tagging policies and reduce cloud costs

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