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Governance capability - Establishing Your Cloud Foundation on AWS

Governance capability

The Governance capability enables you to define and enforce business and regulatory policies for your cloud environment. Policies can include rules for your environment or risk definitions. A portion of your governance policies is embedded in other capabilities across your environment to ensure that you meet your requirements.

Stakeholders:

  • Governance, Risk Management, and Compliance (Primary)

  • Finance

  • Security

  • Central IT

Personas:

  • Cloud Team - the team(s) who make cloud available to customers.

  • Information Security Team - the members of the cloud team responsible for security in AWS.

  • Finance Team - the team responsible for reporting, allocating, and forecasting cloud costs.

  • Compliance Team - the team responsible for compliance.

  • Procurement Team - the team responsible for procurement of services from the cloud service provider.

Scenarios:

  • CF26 - S1: Cloud service provider relationship

  • CF26 - S2: Operational standards

  • CF26 - S3: Organizational cloud awareness

  • CF26 - S4: Policy communication

  • CF26 - S5: Governance at scale

  • CF26 - S6: Compliance management

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