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Establishing the Cloud Governance Committee
Defining the roles and responsibilities for the Cloud Governance Committee
An organization may have hundreds of developers and engineers working across the globe on the next big thing. Cloud providers allow you to launch a very powerful machine in the cloud with everything loaded and running with just a few clicks of a button. This enables developers, engineers, and others in the organization to stand-up any resources they want, at any time, from anywhere in the world. This leads to loss of visibility on what’s out there, who owns it, its purpose, the environment, regulatory impact, what kind of data is included, the associated cost, executive approval, data security, access control, security misconfiguration, if any and other factors which may lead to reputational damage for the organization. This is where some kind of oversight body is needed to govern the entire process.
Now that you have hundreds of cloud accounts, subscriptions, and projects from different cloud providers. The fact is everything now has a sense of urgency, developers and engineers are purchasing those accounts on their corporate credit cards, personal credit cards to be reimbursed later, debit cards, and many other payment methods. It is never too late to stand up a governance body to provide oversight for cloud provisioning, cost, approval, usage, security, efficiency, maturity, and management.
