Policies for resource management

To ensure that cloud resources (particularly when using IaaS and PaaS services) align with operational and security policies, it’s often necessary to leverage technical policies to enforce these within a cloud environment. These technical policies allow organizations to configure a technical template of standards that the cloud resources are either configured to adhere to at the time of setup, reconfigured to adhere to as changes are made, or potentially create alerts for an administrator when the resource is no longer in compliance. In many cases, different policies might be assigned to different resources based on the intent and use of the resource. For example, there may be a need to apply more restrictive policies to a resource that is in a production environment versus a sandbox environment, or those resources that are accessible to external users versus those that are only accessible to users within a corporate directory. The determination...