Configuration is complicated and leads to “script spaghetti”
A production-ready cloud instance requires trial-and-error manual configuration that is hard to manage across environments, which requires teams to write and maintain extensive and non-standard scripts to fill the gaps.

Provisioning cloud infrastructure can be slow
Manual processes and approvals can mean days or months to get a cloud-based instance up and running, which makes it impractical for environments with fast turnaround (such as on-demand test environments).

EXPENSIVE & PLAGUED BY "LOCK-IN"

Costs can be high and hard to manage
It’s hard to predict the infrastructure and bandwidth that you’ll need in the future; and pay-as-you-go charges can add up faster than you realize if you’re not closely monitoring them and taking action.

Switching providers is difficult
Cloud-based instances cannot simply be ported from one provider to another—changing vendors means setting everything up again, from scratch… and potential downtime of your applications.

SECURITY AND COMPLIANCE CONSIDERATIONS

Security is more important than ever
Moving to the cloud can introduce security concerns; how can you be sure that all of your cloud-based environments are hardened against hacks?

You have compliance requirements to meet
Whether you’re deploying applications on-premises or in the cloud, you need to be ready to meet compliance requirements and provide process data to auditors.

Manage configuration centrally and avoid scripting
Eliminate scripting, reduce duplicate work, and promote configuration reuse by standardizing processes and centralizing complex configuration data across environments and across cloud providers.

Allow teams to request cloud instances on-demand
Enable development teams to automatically request cloud instances as part of their CI/CD pipelines and spin up instances in parallel to save time.

MONITOR, MANAGE & MOVE AT WILL

Automatically monitor cloud usage and de-provision instances
Get visibility into the frequency and duration of deployments to the cloud through detailed reports, and automatically de-provision unused cloud instances to ensure you only pay for what you’re actively using.

Create a single source of truth for apps and configuration data
Avoid vendor lock-in by centralizing application and configuration data, so you can more easily change providers and still have consistent, repeatable deployments after the switch.

MAINTAIN ENTERPRISE CONTROL

Bake security into the software delivery process
Combine automated and manual security checks for powerful control over cloud configurations, and take advantage of role-based access control to prevent unauthorized releases to sensitive environments.

Automatically collect governance details
Automatically collect compliance and audit data as part of the software delivery process, with full visibility for everyone involved.