Cloud Governance Reference

This repository provides a vendor-neutral reference for cloud governance principles, patterns and decision-making across multiple cloud providers.

It focuses on the "why" and "what" of governance, serving as a conceptual foundation that can be applied to Azure, AWS and GCP.

Scope

• Cloud governance principles
• Guardrails and compliance models
• Organizational structures
• Policy-driven governance concepts
• Architectural decision records (ADR)

Cloud coverage

• Azure
• AWS
• Google Cloud Platform (GCP)

Audience

Cloud architects, platform engineers and technical leaders seeking structured and scalable governance guidance.

Relationship with other repositories

Practical implementations of the concepts described here are documented in cloud-specific repositories (e.g., azure-infrastructure-labs).