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Why do you need Optimal Cloud Management and Governance?

As enterprises speed up adoption of AWS Cloud, the need to balance agility with security governance is a top priority for all CIO, CISO and Director IT roles across small and large businesses. AWS offers a 1-Click model to provision assets across business units, global regions, and product teams but one needs to carefully consider factors around Identity & Access management, Security & Compliance, Budget & Cost management. Without properly implemented governance & controls, enterprises stand exposed to the risk of assets, data and critical information being exposed which can be catastrophic for the business.

To help every enterprise gain from global best practices, AWS offers a comprehensive set of control services such as AWS Control Tower, AWS Security Hub, AWS Budget & Cost management. A proper implementation of these best practices can help enterprises achieve right Governance.

Relevance Lab in partnership with AWS has been working closely to make cloud adoption frictionless, automated, and cost effective. By bringing together a unique combination of consulting approach, deep expertise, complementary tools for automation and pre-built solutions, we can help enterprises achieve security and governance maturity for their AWS cloud operating environment across plan, build and run lifecycle.

Governance360 anchored by AWS Management and Governance Lens is a best practice implementation model for organizations consisting of multiple departments, BUs, etc. Relevance Lab helps Enterprises adopt M&G lens through their Governance360 with 3 stages – Leverage, Augment and Instill.

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Why should enterprises focus on this?

To achieve agility, compliance and security, enterprises cannot rely on manual processes and hence automation plays a key role. It calls for an integrated framework referred to as “Governance360” – built on AWS Management and Governance Lens, which focuses on Account Management, Network and Infrastructure, Security, Compliance Automation, Budget, and Cost Management. This model helps clients to fast track their business objectives, while ensuring their workloads and cloud environments meet security and compliance requirements.

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Relevance Lab also offers ongoing managed services powered by RLServiceOne. For more details on RL’s ServiceOne offering, please click here.

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Key Benefits:

Key benefits that organizations can expect are listed below.

Transition from a “reactive” to a “proactive” approach
Achieve higher levels along a maturity model curve with incremental benefits
Reduce internal IT and Security team efforts by 30-50% with prebuilt solution and automation
Faster detection & resolution of issues by 50%
Cost savings of up-to 60% (typically $100-500K on annual spends) covering human and asset costs

Key Screenshots of Governance360

As shown above in the instill block of RL Unique methodology, Governance360 consists of various metrics spread across Governance, Cost, Security, Compliance etc., some of the real life screenshots are shown below.

How to move to a matured Cloud Management and Governance?

Governance360 implementation requires streamlining account management across multiple AWS accounts & workloads through centralization, standardization, and automation. Implementation of AWS Control Tower brings in predefined controls in terms of guardrails that can help centralize, standardize the account provisioning.

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RL helps organizations achieve this maturity model in 4 stages by accessing the current state and recommending the futuristic state to reach the ideal state of maturity. The following aspects contribute to this objective. A typical architecture blueprint covering 4 levels of maturity is as shown below.

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Summary

Clients are often faced with a situation where their AWS environments have started and grown without an underlying starting well-architected framework. Account proliferation without standardization poses significant security risks and high costs. They also at many times rely on traditional IT management processes which are manual and not scalable. In some cases, clients rely on third party tools or solutions without due consideration, which can further complicate and increase operational challenges.

With Governance360, clients can improve security and governance of their AWS environments and fast track their business objectives. Relevance Lab can help organizations to build or migrate existing accounts to a secured, compliant, multi account AWS environment enabled with automation to increase both operational and cost efficiency. This transition can be made frictionless using our specialized competencies, RLCatalyst automation framework and the AWS Management and Governance Lens Framework.