Are you maintaining a lifecycle in your multi-cloud governance? then you are making a costly mistake

Cloud service activities indeed tend to have lifecycles, governance needs to be tightly tied with structured, monitored, and executable guidelines to spin around cloud lifecycle. Importantly, cloud governance shouldn’t have a start and finish line in the entire process ecosystem.

It is ideal to set the multi-cloud governance strategy, definition, and framework as early as possible in the cloud transformation journey and apply it to all cloud lifecycle activities to cultivate the maximized multi-cloud utilization. Below are few areas to ponder.

Businesses are in high demand:

Governance around cloud request flows ensures that business demands are properly captured, aggregated using self-service catalogs under cloud transformation strategy by utilizing all appropriate cloud services. An inbuilt, dynamic and streamlined workflow model will bring down unnecessary process delays.

Perceived provisioning patterns for sustainability:

Governance around reference architecture ensures that blueprints are coherent with enterprise custom policies and industry standards. A flexible process system to validate exception requests and their compliance level with cloud transformation strategy will reduce compliance breaches.

Subscriptions and approvals should be trackable and manageable:

Governance around configurations ensures that preselected provider’s services can scale to meet business demand under budget, along with required approval checkpoints. An inbuilt funding model will add more visibility to service utilization and burn rate.

Upkeep the utilizations:

Governance around cloud services ensures that all appropriate cloud resources are utilized at maximum level without any redundancy. An automated services registration with a tracking mechanism can bring high visibility.

Unsubscriptions can’t be overlooked:

Governance around discontinuing cloud services ensures that all discontinuations have corresponded with policy and contract. Adding accountability to consumers and providers with timely notifications can bring positive impacts.

Round-the-clock monitoring:

Governance around cloud compliance ensures that events and incidents are continuously monitored at an appropriate scale that adds context with subsequent analysis of SLA and compliance impacts. An automated action to resolve flagged exceptions can improve business outcomes.

It’s not always from providers (IT) to consumers (Business):

Governance around cloud service offerings and consumption rates ensures that delivered cloud services are performing as expected. Provides enables service performance and capacity analytics to consumers with role-based access levels, and consumers utilizing capabilities under policies to mitigate the inconvenience. Clear, systematic communication between providers and consumers will reduce frequent break fixes

The end of lifecycle is at service decommissioning or service retirement:

Governance around cloud services that are out-of-sight (or) out-of-mind ensures that service retirement date is assigned while provisioning. Enabling options for owners to extend or retire services at convenience and automatic notifications to both service owner and IT before retirement date approaches will eliminate potential risk.

Moreover, if entire multi-cloud cloud governance is enabled in a single platform with custom policy-based execution will further enhance multi-cloud utilization.