Cloud Governance refers to a set of practices, methodologies, and strategies aimed at optimizing the Cloud Operations involving collaboration between IT, finance, operations, and developers / engineering to manage and optimize the costs of cloud-based services, infrastructure, and software applications. TD SYNNEX Public Sector’s Cloud Governance Assessment (CGA) helps organizations assess their Cloud Governance maturity, recommend an action plan, provide a list of only top tier vetted vendors, and help you define your multiyear cloud operations roadmap.

CGA results provide a maturity grade: Informal, Foundational, Advanced, or Optimized along with associated recommendations. The recommendations provide a range of tools, resources, and best practices, which organizations can use to implement Cloud Operations best practices.

SecOps: Included is a list of AWS services that provide various security capabilities to protect your AWS resources, monitor for threats, manage access controls, encrypt data, and enforce security best practices. Implementing a combination of these services can help enhance the security posture of your AWS environment and support your SecOps practices.

DevOps: Included is a list of AWS services that support your DevOps practices by enabling automation, collaboration, and streamlined application deployment. It's important to align these services with your specific requirements and integrate them effectively into your DevOps toolchain to achieve efficient and scalable development processes on AWS.

FinOps: Included is a list of AWS services that can assist you in implementing FinOps practices, monitoring costs, optimizing resource usage, and automating processes to achieve cost efficiency. The specific services you choose will depend on your organization's requirements and goals for optimizing AWS spending.

What are some of the benefits of the CGA? • Applies to organizations of any size. • Provides a risk-based action plan for Cloud Governance improvements. • CGA is quick and simple to administer and complete. • Creates urgency to address most critical risks. • Technology vendor and services recommendations are category based which allows for focused results. • Customers can leverage existing technology vendors and engage new technology vendors to meet needs. Direct links to our website – detailed information on the IT solution and technology vendor teams’ info.

How should you use the CGA?

• Use the assessment report to build the risk-based action plan and business case including proposal and service offerings. • Then use the CGA as needed to report on progress and to update the risk-based action plan leading to future proposals and more security sales.

What do the Grades mean?

Grades indicate level of maturity - A, B, C, and D and “Optimized”, “Advanced”, “Foundational”, or “Informal”, respectfully. Each area is graded and rolled up into an overall maturity grade. The assessment results then pinpoint actions to take in each area identified. This includes technology vendor and services recommendations and access to the TD SYNNEX Public Sector website where you can compare technology vendors and services to determine which IT solution is right for you and your organization.