Assessing resource management policies

Within cloud environments, there are several different types of resource controls. One type, the ability to manage billing and cost controls, not only has a financial impact but also has technical implications as well. In many cases, these controls may define a hierarchy of who can add additional compute resources, how those resources are provided, and the scale of those resources being allocated. Not managing this properly could lead to environmental sprawl and architecture that is not fully documented or vetted and to significant charges for resource consumption if effective controls are not in place. Additionally, in some cases, being defined as a billing administrator also provides a level of privileged technical access within the enterprise cloud environment, making this ability especially sensitive. Another type of resource control that we covered in Chapter 5, Financial Resources and Change Management, was the use of enabling policies,...