CloudHub - Harman International

Cloudhub is a comprehensive multi-cloud management platform built on AWS and designed to seamlessly integrate, manage, and optimize cloud services like EC2 instances, S3 buckets etc. It serves as a central hub, allowing organizations to efficiently manage their cloud resources, streamline workflows, and enhance optimal use across their cloud infrastructure. The platform's robust features are categorized into three main modules: Visibility, Control, and Create.

Visibility - a cornerstone of effective cloud management, offers a suite of features that provide transparency, details and understanding of cloud resources. Key applications in this category include:

• MyCloudSpace: Provides a personalized and intuitive interface for accessing and managing cloud resources, offering visibility into deployed applications, services, and data.
• Gamification: Encourages engineers to optimize and save cloud cost by brining an element of gamification to the boring tasks of resource monitoring & continuous optimization.
• Dashboards: Offers customizable and interactive visualizations of key metrics and performance indicators, providing stakeholders with insights into resource utilization and costs to facilitate informed decision-making and strategic planning.

Control - includes tools and functions designed to avoid cloud cost and govern cloud resources effectively, ensuring compliance, security, and operational efficiency. This includes:

• Downtime Scheduler: Enables organizations to shutdown cloud resources like EC2 instances when not in use. Includes easy-to-use but advanced options to schedule downtimes at different levels (by Env/Project/Server, etc.).

Create focuses on empowering users with self-service provisioning capabilities, allowing them to rapidly deploy and manage cloud resources to meet business demands. The key application in this category is:

• Self-Service Provisioning: Including a pre-configured Landing Zone, allows users to provision and modify cloud resources rapidly in a safe & secure manner. Landing Zones ensure automatic adherence to organization's workload placement, compliance & regulatory policies. Provisioning process includes an easy to use workflow which ensures appropriate resouce tagging, management approvals and greatly enhances successful finops processes.