Cloud governance dwells a lot on managing your cloud operations wherein enterprises try to combine native tools with cloud management platforms and cloud API’s. Broadly these tools are Operations, DevOps or Governance (read policy) based.

Most enterprises journey into cloud in a hybrid multi-step process. This involves having their systems and processes spread across several public clouds, portions in legacy data center and private clouds. One of the expectations from the cloud team supporting these multi-cloud environments is to present a XaaS experience. I.e. allow many self-serving portals to Developers, Managers and Executives as part of newly expanded IT support.

In selecting your cloud management strategy, consider the following:

• Resource depth – kind of metrics needed to satisfy adequate measurement and reporting of a resource – by technology
• Interface – options to interconnect and gather data from various end-points and present to your company’s dashboards
• Compliance and Security
• Cost management – due to nature of cloud business, it is essential for all IT consumers to be sensitive of resource costs by relying on pre-defined spending limits and budget alerts.
• Automation – seek single-click automation to deploy common services like compute and storage instances and extend the XaaS experience.
• User Management – Options to assign roles, create policies and restrictions to launch instance-types and network settings
  

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