The CIO Council’s Enterprise Operations Committee and the General Services Administration’s IT Modernization Division have released new guidance to help federal agencies manage and optimize their cloud operations.
The Cloud Operations Best Practices and Resource Guide outlines four key components of cloud operations, which are leadership, business management, security and platform engineering, and clarifies the differences between traditional IT and cloud operations.
“The overarching theme of this guide is that cloud operations fundamentally differ from traditional IT operations. This difference emerges in virtually every aspect of IT operations, including strategy, planning, budgeting, governance, monitoring, provisioning, and more,” the guidance reads.
Eighty-two subject matter experts across 31 federal agencies shared their best practices and insights for purchasing cloud services, migrating applications and managing IT investments.
The guidance also includes insights on improving cloud operations from the members of the Cloud and Infrastructure Community of Practice working group.
