Define how cloud services are adopted

Before you start building your cloud environment, you need to define policies on cloud consumption. Having your governance policies well-defined, will ensure that the foundational environment you build will support your workloads, and will enable you to define processes to follow to deploy, operate, and govern the different workloads across your environment.

As a part of defining how cloud services are consumed, you will need to confirm which risk and compliance frameworks apply and how your environment will meet those requirements on an ongoing basis.

Another key component of managing and governing your cloud environment will be the operating model that you put in place. You will need to define roles and responsibilities for how you will address the customer components of the Shared Responsibility Model. Many customers decide to set up a Cloud Center of Excellence (CCoE), Cloud Business Office (CBO), or a cloud team which is charged with developing the approach to implementing cloud technology at scale for your organization.