Cloudain Standards
Cloud Governance
Guardrails, not roadblocks. Cloudain establishes policy, identity, guardrails, and observability as code so teams move fast without losing control. Our governance playbook translates business risk into cloud‑native controls you can audit and automate.
Policy‑as‑Code
Org SCPs & Management Groups
IAM & RBAC Standards
Network Segmentation
Tagging & Cost Allocation
Config/Policy Compliance
Unified Logging & Audit
Drift Detection
Sandbox to Prod Guardrails
Policy‑as‑Code
Org SCPs & Management Groups
IAM & RBAC Standards
Network Segmentation
Tagging & Cost Allocation
Config/Policy Compliance
Unified Logging & Audit
Drift Detection
Sandbox to Prod Guardrails
Policy‑as‑Code
Org SCPs & Management Groups
IAM & RBAC Standards
Network Segmentation
Tagging & Cost Allocation
Config/Policy Compliance
Unified Logging & Audit
Drift Detection
Sandbox to Prod Guardrails
What is Cloud Governance?
Governance is the system of policies, roles, processes, and tooling that keeps your cloud secure, compliant, cost‑efficient, and reliable-without slowing delivery. We codify controls so they're enforced automatically across accounts, subscriptions, and projects.
- Guardrails aligned to risk appetite
- Faster delivery with pre‑approved patterns
- Audit‑ready evidence and reporting
Tooling we standardize
AWS Organizations, Control Tower, SCPs
AWS Config, CloudTrail, Security Hub, GuardDuty
Azure Management Groups, Policy, Blueprints
Defender for Cloud, Purview (data governance)
GCP Org Policies, SCC, Forseti/Config Validator
Terraform/OPA, Conftest, Open Policy Agent
We're multi‑cloud, with AWS as primary, Azure/GCP supported.
How we implement Cloud Governance
A pragmatic lifecycle: assess, design, implement, and operate-each mapped to measurable controls and automation.
Assess (Baseline & Risks)
- Current‑state review: org structure, accounts/subscriptions, networks
- Policy gap analysis vs. ISO 27001, SOC 2, HIPAA, PCI
- Risk register with priority and owners
Design (Guardrails)
- Landing zone patterns (prod/non‑prod, shared services, audit)
- IAM and RBAC model (least privilege, break‑glass)
- Network segmentation + egress controls; data classification tags
Implement (Policy‑as‑Code)
- Terraform modules & OPA/Conftest policies in CI
- Automated account provisioning with SCP/Policy sets
- Config rules, drift detection, exception workflows
Operate (Assurance)
- Continuous compliance dashboards & alerts
- Audit‑ready evidence: trails, config history, approvals
- Quarterly control attestations & tabletop exercises
Identity & Access
- Centralized identity, SSO, MFA enforced
- Role‑based access, JIT access, and strong break‑glass
- Key management and secrets hygiene (KMS/Key Vault/Cloud KMS)
Cost & Tag Governance
- Mandatory tag keys for ownership, environment, data class
- Budgets, anomaly detection, auto stop/rightsizing workflows
- Chargeback/showback aligned with FinOps
Guardrails (SCP)
Deny public S3 by default, restrict regions, enforce MFA, prevent root access, block wildcard IAM, and require approved AMIs.
Compliance as Code
AWS Config conformance packs for CIS, HIPAA, PCI; auto‑remediation with SSM documents.
Network Controls
Central egress via NAT/Firewall, VPC endpoints for data services, private DNS, traffic mirroring for forensics.
Evidence & Audit
Org CloudTrail + Lake, immutable logs, trail integrity validation, and automated evidence export for auditors.
Measurable outcomes
Policy coverage
% resources under policy, # of mandatory tags present, % services behind private endpoints.
Risk reduction
Time to remediate critical findings, # of prevented violations via guardrails, audit issues per quarter.
Operational speed
Time to provision a new account/subscription, lead time for change, % automated exceptions closed.