Designing a cloud management structure
As mentioned in the previous section, the Azure management structure should align with your business structure of how your divisions are internally organized and how you wish to percolate the policies down to each of these divisions. For example, almost all companies have a central information technology (IT) team that manages the global infrastructure of the company. This includes networks, firewalls, and identity. Most companies also have customer relationship management and enterprise resources planning systems such as SAP that need teams and management of their own. Other corporate systems are managed by different business teams.
Each of these divisions or teams needs different policies that typically do not overlap. For example, you won’t want an employee from the sales division to manage the networks. Employees from the IT team have no reason to query the sales data. The life cycles of these infrastructure pieces and the corporate...
