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Kion and Carahsoft have partnered together to provide a series of self-guided tours of Kion's products and features. Similar to a live demo, the self-guided tours explores how Kion's products and features applies to a specific technology vertical such as MultiCloud.

 

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Kion redefines cloud enablement with a single-platform solution that seamlessly integrates AWS, Azure and Google Cloud services. Kion’s solution simplifies cloud management by encompassing automation, financial oversight and compliance measures, providing agencies with comprehensive control over their cloud infrastructure. With Kion, agencies can explore the transformative potential of cloud operations without the complexities often associated with managing multiple cloud environments. Starting the cloud enablement journey with Kion is an opportunity to streamline operations and optimize resources, allowing organizations to focus on innovation and growth. Government agencies can leverage Kion to navigate the evolving landscape of cloud computing, empowering their organization to thrive in the digital era.


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Organizational Chart

Kion's Organizational Chart is designed to simplify multi cloud management by providing a visual representation of an organization's multi cloud infrastructure. This feature offers more flexibility and customization options compared to the limited capabilities of similar native cloud tools.

With Kion's Organizational Chart, there is no limit to the depth and breadth of the chart. Administrators can create a structure that mirrors their organization's needs, such as departments, development lifecycle stages, or individual projects. This means you can visualize your cloud to the way that is most impactful for your organization.

The chart incorporates several key features:

  • Spend View: Shows how each project and OU are spending against their budget and their rate of consumption of easy at-a-glance understanding of their spend.
  • Policy View: Displays where policies and cloud rules are inherited and locally applied to each OU and project.
  • Compliance View: Categorizes security findings by severity for different OUs and projects, strengthening overall governance and compliance.

Kion's organizational structure utilizes hierarchical inheritance, automatically applying necessary policies and configurations to child OUs and projects based on their parent OUs. This allows rapid scalability of well-architected cloud operations and governance across all of your clouds.

Benefits:

  • Complete visibility of your multi cloud environment in one place
  • See spend of OUs and projects against assigned budgets
  • Real-time security and compliance posture of your entire cloud estate
  • Rapidly scale well-architected governance with hierarchal inheritance of policies and configurations
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MultiCloud Cost Reporting

Kion's Cloud Cost Reporting feature provides organizations with comprehensive and customizable insights into their cloud spending across multi cloud environments. Users can create detailed financial reports tailored to specific needs, such as viewing costs by organizational unit, project, service, or custom tags. These reports can be saved for ongoing use, allowing for historical data analysis and financial planning. Kion's reports offer extensive customization options, including amortized costs, data types, filters, and visualizations. The platform also automates responses to financial events, sends notifications when spending thresholds are reached, and provides tools to compare actual spending against budgets and forecasts. Kion enhances native cost management tools provided by cloud providers like AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud by integrating their data into a unified reporting platform, enabling organizations to manage all their cloud resources cohesively. Users can create reports based on advanced filtering options, grouping costs by department, project, cloud provider tag, or any operational unit, making it scalable alongside your environment as you grow.

Benefits:

  • Visualize and manage multi-cloud spending from one place.
  • Understand your actual spend with reports on nonamortized, amortized, and attributed amortized costs for aligned spending and better decision-making.
  • Further refine your view by reporting on multi-cloud spend with parameters like service, cloud provider, cloud provider tags, and many more for fine-tuned control.
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MultiCloud Budget Tracking and Enforcement

Kion's Budgets feature allows organizations to set, monitor, and manage budgets at various levels, including per project, organizational unit (OU), or across the entire organization, with the flexibility to set budgets on a monthly, quarterly, or annual basis, and as either fixed or cumulative. Financial Enforcement Actions in Kion automate the response to budgetary events, such as spending exceeding a defined threshold, with actions ranging from sending notifications to stakeholders to automatically restricting cloud accounts from provisioning new resources to prevent further spend. Integrating Budgets and Financial Enforcement Actions within Kion provides CloudOps and FinOps professionals with a robust platform to drive financial policy throughout the organization to ensure accountability, optimize cloud spending, and drive better business outcomes without hindering operational efficiency.

Benefits:

  • Attribute MultiCloud spend and set MultiCloud budgets to align spending with your goals.
  • Receive proactive alerts when spending approaches budget limits to ensure expenditures do not exceed allocated funds without oversight.
  • Automate cost control by enforcing financial policy with predefined actions when financial thresholds are reached, without manual intervention.
  • Enhance operational efficiency by automating routine financial management tasks, to free up CloudOps and FinOps teams.
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Continuous Compliance Engine

Kion's Continuous Compliance Engine is a powerful tool designed to help organizations maintain compliance with various regulatory standards by continuously monitoring multi cloud environments. This engine scans for deviations from both predefined and custom control sets, ensuring that your cloud infrastructure always aligns with compliance requirements. Kion's Compliance Programs feature provides a comprehensive view of all required controls for a given compliance standard and details how these requirements are being met within the organization, supporting many popular compliance standards, such as SOC 2, HIPAA, NIST, FedRAMP, and more, with ready-to-use controls that map directly to these standards. Kion's compliance engine identifies compliance issues and offers automated remediations for many findings, ensuring that any compliance drift is quickly corrected and eliminated from occurring again, maintaining the security and integrity of the cloud environment.

Benefits:

  • Continuously scan multi cloud environments to ensure adherence to various regulatory standards, keeping your cloud infrastructure compliant at all times.
  • Automatically detect and remediate compliance deviations with predefined and customizable control sets.
  • Streamline your compliance processes with a detailed, ready-to-use map of all necessary controls for standards like SOC 2, HIPAA, NIST, and FedRAMP.ards like SOC 2, HIPAA, and FedRAMP.
  • Eliminate drift with Kion's automated remediations, ensuring continuous protection and adherence to strict compliance standards.
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Automated Policy-Driven Guardrails

Kion's policy-driven guardrails empower CloudOps professionals by providing a mechanism to affect and scale multi-cloud policy. With Kion, you can drive financial, security, and operational policies down while driving the accountability of teams up, ensuring that configurations meet standards, security risk is reduced, and consistency is maintained. Additionally, Kion can apply policies and access controls as part of the account vending process to vend preconfigured cloud accounts across multiple cloud providers.

The integration of these features provides a comprehensive platform for secure, automated multi-cloud operations that rapidly scale. By leveraging Kion, CloudOps professionals can support operational efficiency, align cloud operations with organizational policies, and enhance business agility. The centralized management of policies, access controls, and account provisioning streamlines the implementation and enforcement of governance measures across the entire cloud infrastructure. This enables organizations to maintain a strong security posture, optimize costs, and facilitate the rapid adoption and scaling of cloud services.

Benefits:

  • Seamlessly enforce financial, security, and operational policies across multi-cloud environments, enhancing accountability and consistency.
  • Vend preconfigured cloud accounts across multiple cloud providers that are instantly ready for use.
  • Rapidly scale well-architected multi cloud operations with centralized management of policies and access controls.
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MultiCloud Access Roles

Kion's Cloud Access Roles feature ensures that least-privileged access is configured by default across multi-cloud environments. By consolidating Identity and Access Management (IAM) policies into a single repository, Kion simplifies the administration of access controls, maintains a consistent security posture across all cloud platforms, and enables rapid updates to policies that are instantly applied to all connected cloud accounts. Kion integrates with enterprise identity providers to map users and groups to least privileged roles based on the account and task. This minimizes the risk of excessive permissions and simplifies access management.

Kion enhances its Cloud Access Roles feature by incorporating both Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) and Attribute-Based Access Control (ABAC) methodologies. RBAC allows administrators to define roles with specific permissions based on user responsibilities and needs, ensuring consistency and scalability. ABAC provides a more flexible and context-aware approach, enabling access decisions based on attributes such as department, location, or project. This dynamic policy enforcement reduces the risk of over-privileged access and adapts to varying conditions.

The integration of RBAC and ABAC in Kion's Cloud Access Roles empowers CloudOps professionals to enforce precise, policy-driven access controls that align with organizational security policies and compliance requirements. Kion's integration with identity providers allows for dynamic access control, automatically updating cloud access based on changes in user status or group membership. This ensures that the right individuals have the right access at the right time, and that access is revoked when no longer needed. By combining these robust access management mechanisms, Kion streamlines and automates access control processes, reduces administrative burden, and helps maintain a secure and compliant cloud infrastructure across multiple cloud providers.

Benefits:

  • Enforce a least-privilege by default posture in your MultiCloud environment.
  • Simplify IAM policy management with a centralized repository for IAM policies across multi cloud platforms.
  • Provide granular access control, tailored to the specific context of the cloud provider, account, and task through role-based, and attribute-based access controls.

Kion's Benefits Snapshot:

 

  • Automation: Automate the provisioning and configuration of cloud accounts to reduce risk of non-compliance and security breaches.
  • Financial Management: Aggregate spending data from multiple clouds into one platform to gain better visibility of overall costs.
  • Continuous Compliance: Apply compliance checks and remediate findings in one place for all clouds to maintain compliance and regulations