Building a cloud infrastructure that works is hard enough, but for government agencies or financial institutions, strict rules and regulations make for a particularly complicated governance challenge. The key is to enable developers to move quickly and not have to constantly check to make sure a regulatory issue is allowed.

“The way you adapt to all this complexity is through automation. We don’t just build stuff on cloud, we monitor it every 30 seconds. And if anything gets out of specification, we fix it,” said Josh Stella (pictured), founder and chief executive officer of Fugue Inc.

That level of monitoring is allowing Fugue, an infrastructure automation system for the cloud, to gain traction among sectors such as healthcare, government and financial services. Automation represents an important next step following wide scale adoption of enterprise cloud services, according to Stella.

“We’re really now in the second wave, and this wave is strategic,” he said.

Stella visited with John Walls (@JohnWalls21) and Stu Miniman (@stu), co-hosts of theCUBE, SiliconANGLE’s mobile livestreaming studio, during this week’s AWS Summit in New York City. They discussed how Fugue helps enterprises on their cloud journey, C-suite expectations and future product releases. (* Disclosure below.)

Powerful migration technology

By “baking in” difficult challenges, such as policy and infrastructure as code, developers have far more tools at their disposal. “It’s a really powerful technology for migration,” Stella said.

Increasing complexity and the rapid proliferation of cloud technologies have created a greater need for C-suite executives to get a handle on not only what’s been built, but where it will take them. “People are confused still about where this whole thing is going,” Stella said. “The leadership of the organization needs assurance that’s what’s being built is going to be correct.”

Fugue came out of stealth mode last year, and the company is planning to make new product releases “over the next six to nine months,” potentially timed for AWS re:Invent 2017 in late November, Stella stated. He did not disclose details other than to say that they could “really change some of the dynamics around things like being able to adopt cloud.”

Watch the complete video interview below, and be sure to check out more of SiliconANGLE’s and theCUBE’s coverage of AWS Summit. (* Disclosure: TheCUBE is an unpaid media partner for AWS Summit. Neither Amazon Web Services Inc. nor other sponsors have editorial control over content on theCUBE or SiliconANGLE.)

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