Cloud Governance is a set of rules that are applied to public cloud. It applies specific policies or principles to the use of cloud computing services.This model aims to secure applications and data even if located distantly. The best Cloud Governance solutions include People, Processes, and Technology (PPT). It basically refers to the decision making processes, criteria, and policies involved in the planning, architecture, acquisition, deployment, operation, architecture, acquisition, implementation, operation, and management of a Cloud computing capability. Cloud Governance best practices help to optimize the organization’s:
- Operations: Doing it efficiently and proactively
- Risk and compliance: Doing it securely with compliance controls and also procedures in place.
- Financial: Doing more with less
The real challenge with operations is that most of the enforcement and auditing is done through manual procedures and reviews.
Few examples of proper corporate policies that guide cloud adoption
- Avoid overspending on cloud deployments
- Secure sensitive data on cloud
- Deployment acceleration by effective design
- Implement governance foundation
Enforcing governance has lot of challenges, we at Consulbench have framework and solutions to address governance using code.