Improve your initial cloud governance foundation
This article assumes that you have established an initial cloud governance foundation. As your cloud adoption plan is implemented, tangible risks will emerge from the proposed approaches by which teams want to adopt the cloud. As these risks surface in release planning conversations, use the following grid to quickly identify a few best practices for getting ahead of the adoption plan to prevent risks from becoming real threats.
Maturity vectors
At any time, the following best practices can be applied to the initial governance foundation to address the risk or need mentioned in the following table.
Important
Resource organization can affect how these best practices are applied. It's important to start with the recommendations that best align with the initial cloud governance foundation you implemented in the previous step.
| Risk/need | Standard enterprise | Complex enterprise |
|---|---|---|
| Sensitive data in the cloud | Discipline improvement | Discipline improvement |
| Mission-critical applications in the cloud | Discipline improvement | Discipline improvement |
| Cloud cost management | Discipline improvement | Discipline improvement |
| Multicloud | Discipline improvement | Discipline improvement |
| Complex/legacy identity management | N/A | Discipline improvement |
| Multiple layers of governance | N/A | Discipline improvement |
Next steps
In addition to the application of best practices, the Govern methodology of the Cloud Adoption Framework can be customized to fit unique business constraints. After following the applicable recommendations, evaluate corporate policy to understand additional customization requirements.