Azure Governance MVP Design : 1-Wk Assessment

Establishing effective cloud governance is an iterative effort that requires adoption across the organisation. It is challenging to strike an effective balance between speed and control, especially during early phases of cloud adoption.

Operating in a cloud native model will require pivoting of existing processes as well as embracing new tool sets, approaches and policies. Allowing teams to move quickly to deliver change whilst having frictionless guardrails in place to ensure governance is key to success in Azure.

The Governance MVP Design Service allows you to leverage the considerable expertise gained by Node4 through helping hundreds of clients achieve Cloud Adoption. Working in line with the Azure Cloud Adoption Framework an experienced Azure consultant will guide you through the best practice approach to Governance and create documented policies and schedules.

The work package will cover a number of Azure Governance patterns including:

• Security Baseline (Networking and Encryption)

• Cost Management (Tagging, Subscriptions and Controls)

• Identity Management (RBAC and Management Groups)

• Resource Consistency (Hub/Spoke and Deployments)

Benefits

• Optimise expenditure within Azure & protect against accidental spend

• Save costs by sharing central services across projects

• Provide guidelines to employees for best practice deployments within Azure

• Ensure security guardrails are in place to enforce security standards across all projects

• Achieve deployment consistency on all deployed resources ensuring tagging & naming conventions are “baked in”

• Provide the policy framework to create personalised landing zone blueprints

• Agree logging & audit principles for all deployments

• Ensure identity management & RBAC controls are effectively defined & agreed