New Axelos ITIL® 4 Extension Module develops cloud procurement and technology integration skills

As more organizations look to adopt cloud technologies, it’s important to have best practice guidance to ensure you optimize their benefits, both from procurement and the technology itself. That’s why Amazon Web Services (AWS) is pleased to support Axelos, the world’s most respected provider of global best practices, in launching a new, vendor-neutral, ITIL 4 Extension Module called ITIL® 4: Acquiring and Managing Cloud Services.

ITIL has been providing comprehensive, practical, and proven guidance to global organizations and professionals for over 30 years. This framework enables service providers to gain optimal value from IT-enabled products and services and equips them with a clear capability model aligned to an organization’s strategy and customer needs.

The ITIL 4 Extension Modules extend the main ITIL 4 framework and provide organizations with the guidance to address and harness the challenges and opportunities presented by emerging technologies and themes that impact their operations, allowing individuals to learn about ITIL concepts, develop an understanding of relevant ITIL 4 guidance, and enable career development.

ITIL 4 will help organizations and professionals drive their businesses and careers forward with a more flexible, end-to-end operating model for the creation, design, and management of IT-enabled products and services. The certifications consist of real-world best practice concepts, practices, and guidance, which can be adopted and adapted to complement other frameworks and ways of working to thrive in increasingly volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous (VUCA) environments.

Caption: Learners typically begin with the ITIL® 4 Foundation certification and then explore ITIL Extension modules, shown on the left.

About the Extension Module

ITIL® 4: Acquiring and Managing Cloud Services Extension Module is aimed at anyone interested in gaining critical skills in the areas of cloud acquisition and management. The ITIL 4 Extension Module draws on the combined knowledge, research, and real-world expertise of vendors, consultants, trainers, developers, business leaders, and practitioners who are shaping the cloud industry. Learners will gain trusted information on a range of cloud acquisition and management topics from how to draft a cloud-friendly RFP and assess a range of cloud service providers as part of a competitive procurement exercise, to onboarding and managing a cloud service provider and optimizing a cloud environment.

Additional core topics within the ITIL 4 Extension Module include:

• Applying the ITIL framework to facilitate successful cloud services procurement and integration
• Conducting an objective, vendor-neutral evaluation of cloud service providers
• Identifying, selecting, and delivering optimized cloud services
• Sharing and embedding cloud and ITIL knowledge during and after an implementation

There are no prerequisites for the ITIL® 4: Acquiring and Managing Cloud Services Extension Module, as relevant key concepts from the ITIL® 4 Framework are covered as part of the syllabus. This ITIL 4 Extension Module is accompanied by a comprehensive core guidance publication. Learners who complete the ITIL 4 Extension Module can earn a globally recognized professional certification from an Accredited Training Organization, such as Purple Griffon and BEYOND20, in as few as three days. Read more about the  ITIL® 4 Foundation Framework and Extension Modules, purchase the core guidance, find training, or book an exam.

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