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IT leaders recognize now they cannot stifle the innovation that has occurred from the
independent teams that have engaged in shadow IT when their IT departments cannot
meet demand. CloudBolt's cloud management platform can help IT leaders achieve the
innovation needs of specific lines of business with less complicated resource provisioning,
all while managing the complexity of security, performance, and control on the backend.
EC2 encourages scalable deployment of applications by providing
a web service through which a user can boot an Amazon Machine
Image (AMI) to configure a virtual machine, known as an "instance"
in Amazon terminology, containing any software desired. A user
can create, launch, and terminate server instances as needed,
paying by the second for active servers.
HOW CLOUDBOLT RELIEVES THE COMPLEXITY
Amazon has a database of thousands of AMIs. End users must sort through that
database to figure out which AMI they should use to provision resources. They have to
know which region they should use and which availability zone is best to deploy their
infrastructure. These are just a few of the questions that they must answer to provision
resources for AWS EC2 instances.
When an enterprise end user creates a server in an AWS cloud environment, they must also
consider configuring the server with the appropriate tags for billing, reporting, or resource
tracking purposes. All of this complexity can be abstracted from end users or groups of end
users with specific requirements using a cloud management platform like CloudBolt.
CloudBolt can present end users with a subset of the AWS settings to configure,
narrowing down the choices to just what is necessary while all of the other
configuration details are configured behind the scenes. As multiple end users and end
user groups access AWS resources across the enterprise, CloudBolt can synchronize
tags associated with those servers and use them for reporting on users, billing codes, or
any annotations related to their usage.
