Centralize your control of Amazon
The challenges
Many enterprises are already moving to developing and deploying services on Amazon Web Services, they have found the increased flexibility, lower ramp up costs and faster delivery of their own services to market very appealing.
The key challenges are :
Visibility – Firstly, who has access to resources in Amazon? Many enterprises simply do not know who, and how many instances they have running inside EC2. Enterprises find that multiple internal IT projects has led to multiple users, doing things the way they see fit, without the control and oversight into the resources or information held within Amazon.
Secondly, where are those resources located? Are they located within the correct geography?, a key concern within the EU, and is the control for these resources even based in the same continent?
Control is a key challenge – IT departments often do not know what those Amazon resources are used for, how are they configured and what security measures are in place.
Enterprises find that the management of Amazon resources occurs in silos, lacking controls to unify and consolidate multiple accounts simultaneously, which leads to increased time and costs through duplication of work being spent managing resources and applications located within Amazon Web Services across the business.
Abiquo provides centralized control
Abiquo v2.6 enables business to manage multiple Amazon accounts through the existing ‘roles and scopes’ policy rules defined within the Abiquo platform.
Customers can allocate and manage Amazon resources as though they were their own, centralize the visibility, control and management so that they can exploit the benefits of the public cloud and keep the IT department happy by ensuring compliance and meeting legal requirements on data protection.
The Abiquo Amazon EC2 integration first made available in v2.6 is a hybrid cloud feature that enables our customers to add Amazon Availability Zones to the Abiquo platform as compute resources.
Amazon Regions are added as Abiquo public datacenters and correspond to an Availability Zone within a single Region in Amazon EC2.
When users create a virtual datacenter in the public datacenter, a Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) is created for each Abiquo virtual datacenter. Virtual machines deployed in the VPC virtual datacenter are created as Amazon Instances.
To limit access to the resources in a public datacenter, you can set allocation limits at the different points in a datacenter, just as you would with any Abiquo datacenter.
When users deploy resources in public datacenters, Abiquo checks the allocation limits for RAM, Virtual CPUs and Local Hard Disk, ensuring that enterprises keep control over the levels of use across the business.
Amazon virtual machine cores, RAM and local hard disk are accounted by Abiquo Accounting, which enables Service Providers to measure and charge for their own services wrapped around the Amazon infrastructure.
Abiquo allows customers to manage their private and AWS EC2 infrastructure as one
Create virtual data centres from AWS EC2 infrastructure
Set allocation limits for Amazon EC2
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