Tag: Governance

Coverage and utilization metrics can be misleading and do not always tell the full story when it comes to managing commitments and measuring their impact. Effective Savings Rate (ESR) is an objective FinOps metric that measures your true ROI. In this blog post, we will discuss challenges with coverage and utilization, why ESR is important, benchmarking insights, and automation with ProsperOps.

Many organizations lack visibility into cloud identities, leading to excessive, unused, or noncompliant access patterns. SailPoint Cloud Access Management is an identity-focused enterprise solution to certify, provision, and manage the cloud access lifecycle. SailPoint identifies inappropriate, unauthorized, and unused access in AWS to help organizations effectively secure their cloud infrastructure and related workloads.

Data governance serves an important role in ensuring the quality, consistency, and security of data utilized across an organization. Using a multi-account structure with cross-account access is an AWS best practice that offers several other benefits. Learn how to set up a data governance system in AWS Organization accounts with clients’ use cases and solutions, and how ASCENDING overcame the technical challenges listed above.

As data grows at an exponential rate both in volume and velocity, it becomes important for organizations to carve out a strategy to store data in appropriate locations with the correct safeguards to address data access and privacy concerns. Learn how organizations can transform their data landscape into a more controlled, flexible, and secure landscape using LTI’s Canvas Scarlet Data Mesh framework built on AWS to meet the data challenges an organization faces today.

A key goal of modern data strategy, whether a data mesh, data fabric, data lake, or data warehouse, is to deliver access to data when and where it’s needed. Learn how AWS and Informatica can combine and automate data governance for access within a data marketplace. This solution combines Information’s data governance architecture and the Informatica Intelligent Data Management Cloud (IDMC) which orchestrates and automates data access management with AWS Lake Formation.

In today’s highly complex and dynamic application ecosystem, in addition to a growing virtual workforce, it’s imperative for organizations to have an automated system in place to handle security and compliance. Learn how AWS Security Competency Partner SailPoint has integrated with Amazon EventBridge to solve various use cases for their customers. This platform, SailPoint IdentityNow, provides the benefits of combining SailPoint identity security with Amazon EventBridge to automate security and compliance.

For a business to effectively prepare for unforeseen circumstances and unpredictability, it requires a healthy and robust data culture inside the organization. Alation provides artificial intelligence-driven data search and discovery, governance, and analytics capabilities to help organizations foster a data culture. Learn how Alation makes data users more effective and productive, and how Alation on AWS can be used to govern data to ensure its proper usage.

Privacera is an AWS Partner that provides security and privacy tools for enterprises to secure and govern user access to databases and datastores in the cloud. PrivaceraCloud reduces the burden of self-managing Apache Ranger by providing Ranger as a hosted service. It provides centralized management of data access, authorization policies, and auditing. Learn how Amazon EMR can integrate with PrivaceraCloud to provide a fully-managed data governance solution.

Managing a cloud infrastructure consisting of multiple AWS accounts is an important but also complex topic for Well-Architected cloud environments. The superwerker on AWS Quick Start provides an automation of what consultants charged with building a platform and landing zone would build for a customer. As an individual consulting solution, this typically involves a mix of consulting and hands-on click ops, as well as building some automation in the customer’s preferred infrastructure provisioning tooling.

Cloud infrastructure provides more agility than traditional IT, meaning organizations must think differently about how they design, build, and manage applications. Cloud resources need a stronger integration between IT and organizational governance, as builders need to be able to operate in a cloud environment that’s agile and safe. Hear from APN Ambassador Paolo Latella, who introduces a decentralized model of cloud governance that can help you strike the right balance between agility and safety.