Cloud Governance
Set up your organization for success with cloud governance
Why AWS Cloud Governance?
Move faster while adhering to your security, operational, compliance, and cost standards
Cloud governance is a set of rules, processes, and reports that guide your organization to follow best practices. You can establish cloud governance across your AWS estate, which includes the accounts, infrastructure, and environments that you own and operate in the AWS Cloud. Use built-in best practices and standards for governance to guide your AWS operations. Meet regulatory requirements confidently with comprehensive controls. And achieve consistent governance of your multi-account AWS environment with best-in-class interoperable services.
Benefits
Built-in governance
Innovate with best practices built in when you operate your workloads on AWS. Quickly set up the right foundation for innovation.
Central governance controls
Centrally establish rules, processes, and reports across your AWS estate. Procure third-party products from one place and maintain consistent controls as you grow.
Comprehensive controls
Select from a breadth of multi-account controls across AWS services that guide you to meet your security standards and regulatory requirements.
Explore use cases
Cultivate agility
Quickly spin up new workloads that meet your security, operational, compliance, and cost standards. Accelerate provisioning with purpose-built controls as part of infrastructure as code.
Operate in a dynamic regulatory environment
Inspect and audit your compliance and regulatory requirements with tailored reporting.
Streamline mergers and acquisitions
Migrate workloads faster with established multi-account controls that apply as your AWS estate expands using AWS Organizations and AWS Control Tower.
Resources
Learn more about cloud governance with blog posts, videos, workshops, What's New posts, and training.