AWS Governance At Scale: Best Practices

AWS Governance At Scale: Best Practices

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How it works?

After all, AWS Governance at Scale helps you to monitor and control costs, accounts, and compliance standards, associated with operating large enterprises on AWS. Moreover, this guidance is derived from best practices at AWS and from customers who have successfully operated at scale.

Flexible components

Above all, the components are designed to be flexible so that both technical users and project teams can self-serve on AWS, while leadership maintains control on spending decisions and automated policy enforcement. In addition, companies can implement governance at scale practices by developing their own solution, investing in a commercial solution aligned to the framework, or engaging AWS Professional Services for custom options.

For example, mechanisms that align to governance at scale focus on control and reporting of budget, security and compliance, and enforcing AWS access, across all stakeholder teams. Moreover, a core element is a centralized interface that provides hierarchical structure while preserving native access to the AWS API, the AWS Management Console, and the AWS SDK/CLI.

In addition, the granular and transparent nature of the workflows and data assures leadership that cloud operations across the enterprise are visible and constrained as appropriate with the implemented governance policies

Governance at scale focal points

Governance at Scale implements three focal points: Account Management, Budget and Cost Management, and Security and Compliance Automation

Account Management

Likewise, AWS guidance to achieve governance at scale streamlines account management across multiple AWS accounts and workloads within a company through centralization, standardization, and automation of account maintenance tasks

Policy automation

In addition, AWS guidance to achieve governance at scale automates the application of company policies, deploying accounts with standard specifications. This ensures consistency across AWS accounts and resources. Basically, the policy engine is flexible to accommodate and enforce different types of security polices. For instance, AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM), AWS CloudFormation, or custom scripts.

Identity federation

After all, AWS governance solutions employ AWS Single Sign-On (SSO) through federated identity integration with external authentication providers such as OpenID. In addition Active Directory to centralize AWS account management, and simplify user access to AWS accounts. When SSO is used with AWS CloudTrail, user activity can be tracked across multiple AWS accounts.

Account automation

First of all, services such as AWS Organizations, AWS CloudFormation, and AWS Service Catalog. This automates AWS account provisioning and network architecture baselining. These services replace manual processes, and facilitate the use of pre-defined, standardized system deployment templates.

Bottom line

Governance at Scale is a new concept for automating cloud governance. It can help your company retire manual processes in account management, budget enforcement, and security and compliance. By automating these common challenges, the company can scale without inhibiting agility, speed, and innovation. Yet, while providing decision makers with the visibility, control, and governance that is necessary to protect sensitive data and systems.

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