Cloud-based environments provide many benefits including speed in scale, speed and agility. However, these new IT infrastructures also present several problems. These challenges may vary in severity depending on the type of industry, infrastructure and long-term goals of an organization. But, they can include app and data governance security, performance, as well as data issues.
The biggest issue with cloud environments is reaching the perfect level of elasticity – when the resources allocated to applications meet the demand. Ideally the resources are provided with zero degradation of the application’s response speed and an enterprise only pays for the resources it uses. Despite these goals however, many cloud platforms are unable to handle high load which causes increased latency and decreases the responsiveness of applications.
Another frequent issue is to ensure that the appropriate policies are in place to address security, compliance and governance issues. This requires policies that are aligned to regulatory frameworks and requirements, including standards for storage and handling of data as well as security measures such as monitoring, logging, threat detection, and access controls.
The absence of a defined cloud resource provisioning process could result in an inefficient and unorganized management of these details cloud resources which could lead to data breaches and violations of compliance. To prevent this from happening, teams can define budgetary and approval workflows to ensure that they are using resources according to best practices and not wasting money on capacity that is not being used.
By integrating cloud cost visibility into existing dashboards and identifying the waste caused by excessive permissions and regional configurations that aren’t right the sticker shock can be avoided. Companies should also have tight budgets in order to limit monthly infrastructure costs without affecting productivity.
