How Automic Automation Maximizes the Advantages of the Cloud

The cloud is the future, representing the cornerstone for sustained innovation, enhanced customer experience, improved agility, and much more. However, while cloud services offer many benefits, these benefits are not guaranteed. Your ability to maximize this potential depends on how you manage your workload automation in a hybrid, multi-cloud world. In this post, we discuss strategies for using Automic Automation (whether on premises, Automic SaaS, or Automic Automation Kubernetes Edition) and its cloud integrations to maximize the advantages of the cloud.

Get observability across hybrid, multi-cloud environments (ensure visibility and control)

As organizations increasingly leverage the cloud for its scalability and agility, managing workload automation across a hybrid, multi-cloud environment becomes crucial. While each cloud vendor offers automation capabilities, these offerings present significant limitations. These tools are basic and lack visibility into SLAs, cross-platform dependencies, and more. Further, each of these tools adds to islands of automation. This leaves teams with a fragmented, disconnected picture of the cloud environment and automation running on it. Teams are unable to assess the impact of problems or prevent them.

As you spread processing across cloud platforms and providers, Automic can rapidly visualize and orchestrate automation across your enterprise and cloud service providers.

Optimize operational control (reduce cloud costs)

Lifting and shifting applications to the cloud can introduce cost inefficiencies. Automic Automation empowers you with granular control over cloud resources, allowing you to optimize your cloud footprint and reduce overall costs. When you lift and shift your applications to a cloud server, you find that what was once running on a paid-for server is now running as a variable pay-as-you-go service whenever that server is active. The larger your footprint, the more critical it is that you ensure complete, agile operational control.

Ideally, you want to use (and pay for) the cloud instance when required and keep it inactive the rest of the time. Automic Automation provides the capability to handle situations just like this. A server can be started when needed and then immediately stopped once the work is complete, so you only pay for the time you need it. This can be done without human interaction and configured based on many conditions.

Prevent vendor lock-in (maintain flexibility)

As your organization embraces cloud services, you need the flexibility to move between cloud offerings and vendors. Automic Automation provides long-term flexibility by abstracting the API to the cloud provider's automation technology.  This allows you to leverage future cloud solutions by changing that abstraction—not rebuilding your processing from scratch. From a business perspective, you execute the same workflow, which integrates with each cloud provider’s automation platform. Automation does not change with this approach when you move a service between providers.

Ensure optimal business and IT service levels (meet SLAs)

Your organization has invested heavily in defining, managing, and improving the automated processes you deliver to the business. SLAs (service level agreements) are critical in helping teams ensure the services delivered are as reliable and predictable as the business requires.

SLAs are a critical component of any cloud contract. The challenge becomes who manages these SLAs when they sit across cloud providers. If processing is segmented into distinct cloud vendor automation platforms, there is no central visibility and no critical path across the process. This jeopardizes your ability to maintain or improve your SLAs.

Automic provides end-to-end monitoring across its on-premises automated processes and tasks within cloud-native tools.

Maintain security, governance, and compliance (simplify audits)

Demonstrating compliance requires a clear audit trail that tracks every action within your cloud environment. Automic Automation centralizes this information, providing a comprehensive record of who did what, where, and when. This simplifies your compliance audits.

Granular, role-based access control is an excellent start for a compliance strategy. However, the information concerning governance and compliance for every execution must be centralized. This means gaining central visibility into each execution, including who was involved, when it happened, and the outcome.

Automic centralizes this information automatically. This automation can request execution and, therefore, function as the central point of audit. It will also recover and record job outputs and human interactions with the job as part of standard processing.

How Automic Automation for the cloud can help

Automic provides the agility, speed, and reliability required for effective workload automation. It equips you with a single platform that unifies and simplifies workload automation and orchestration across your hybrid cloud environment.

Automic lets you embrace the cloud and maintain service levels. With it, you can effectively establish a manager-of-managers approach, employing a unified tool to govern several disparate cloud scheduling and workflow orchestration solutions. You can gain end-to-end business process visibility across all your cloud and on-premises workloads.

Cloud provider integrations

Automic Automation has many integrations available on Broadcom’s Automation Marketplace, including integrations with cloud-native technologies like Airflow, ERP systems, and data pipeline tools. Following is a summary of integrations available for cloud providers:  

• AWS. Automic Automation offers integrations with many AWS solutions, including AWS Lambda, Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3), Amazon EventBridge, AWS Glue, AWS Step Functions, and more.    
• Azure. The solution integrates with various Azure solutions, including Azure Blob Storage, Azure Data Factory, Azure Event Grid, Azure Synapse, and more.    
• Google Cloud. In Google Cloud environments, Automic offers integrations for Google Cloud Storage, Google Cloud BigQuery, Google Cloud Composer, Google Cloud Data Fusion, Google Cloud Dataflow, and more.

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To learn more about our integrations or to download an integration, be sure to visit the Automation Marketplace.