1.How much do you spend on the public cloud?
< USD$ 500/month Between USD$500 and USD $1,000/month Between USD$1,000 and $5,000/month Between USD$5,000 and $10,000/month Between USD$10,000 and $50,000/month Between USD$50,000 and $100,000/month Between USD$100,000 and $500,000/month Between USD$500,000 and $1M/month > USD$1M/month
1.What is the number of staff on your Cloud operations team? What is your plan to scale the team in the future
2.Which clouds do you deploy your applications to (check all that apply)?
AWS MS Azure GCP Oracle Digital Ocean Private Cloud By VMware Private Cloud By Hyper-V Others___________________
3.What areas are you concerned about in your billing operations (check all that apply)?
Inaccuracy in billing because of large amount of data Revenue leak due to human errors Long lag time to produce bills for customers in each billing cycle Billing operations team keeps growing to catch up with the work End customers need a self-service portal to track their bills Others _________________________
5.For what do you expect your cloud spending to be the most (check top 3)?
VM Instances (e.g AWS EC2 instances) Containers and microservices Kubernetes services Cloud Native Application Services (e.g. RDS, EMR,HDInsight etc.) Please specify _______________ Serverless (e.g AWS Lambda) Others ______________________
6.Which clouds do you deploy your applications to (check all that apply)?
Cost explorer for full understanding of resource consumption data Governance for budgets for different organizational units such as departments or projects Chargeback / showback capabilities for different organizational units such as departments or projects Projection of future costs Auto shutdown of idle instances Rightsizing recommendations for instances Rightsizing recommendations for storage Smart scheduling of instance startup and shutdown Kubernetes cost breakdown (e.g. how much a Pod has been costing) Others. Please specify ________________________________________
7.For what do you expect your cloud spending to be the most (check top 3)?
ServiceNOW PagerDuty JIRA Others Please Specify
8.What applications/technology stacks do you (want to) deploy on the cloud and need a management solution for performance (check all that apply)?
a. Apache Spark. Please specify which distribution or flavor, e.g. AWS EMR, Databricks, plain Apache Spark distribution on any of the public clouds, etc b. Apache Kafka. Please specify which flavor, e.g. AWS MKS, Confluence Cloud, plain Apache Kafka distribution on any of the public clouds, etc MySQL. Please specify which flavor, e.g. AWS RDS, plain MySQL distribution on any of the public clouds, etc. Postgres. Please specify which flavor, e.g. AWS RDS, plain Postgres distribution on any of the public clouds, etc NoSQL databases. Please specify which flavor, e.g. MongoDB, Cassandra, etc Others___________
9.For application performance monitoring in the cloud, what features are must-haves for you (check all that apply)?
Alerts if application monitored is running below SLA requirements Visualization (e.g. graphs) of metrics being monitored Projection of future performance characteristics using ML Auto modification of workloads to meet SLA requirements Others. Please specify ________________________________________
10.For security and compliance management in the cloud, what features are must-haves for you (check all that apply)?
Perimeter scanning (i.e. scanning for vulnerabilities for attack such as unnecessarily opened ports, root access, etc.) and reports Compliance scanning (i.e. indicating which of the compliance regulations your environment have or have not met) and reports Automation to close vulnerabilities for attack (e.g. closing the unnecessarily opened ports, revoke root access, etc.) Integration with your DevOps pipeline to catch the vulnerabilities in pre-prod environments Others. Please Specify_______________
11.For migration to the cloud, what features are must-haves for you (check all that apply)?
Suggestion of which cloud to migrate to for best performance Suggestion for which cloud to migrate to for best costs Risk assessment of cloud migration, e.g. which applications can be migrated to the cloud without a glitch Suggestion of whether to containerize certain applications Guided migration (i.e. with professional services) Automated migration (i.e. a hands-free experience with no humans involved) Others. Please specify ________________________________________