Cloud governance
From chaos to control: Achieve automated cloud governance at scale
As your cloud footprint grows so does the challenge of maintaining control over costs, security and operations. Manual governance is no longer an option. Flexera provides a powerful policy engine to automate cloud governance, enabling you to manage your multi-cloud and hybrid environments with confidence and scale your FinOps practice effectively.
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Leverage automation to manage and optimize cloud use and spend
Automate cloud governance
Level-up cloud operations with pre-built policies for automating cloud governance
Control cloud use with over 150 out-of-the-box and custom policies to automate governance of costs, operations, security and compliance. Set policies to identify, alert and take action on misconfigured networking options, unsecured data storage and non-compliant resources.
Allocate multi-cloud costs
Improve cloud spend management with cost allocation
Simplify cloud cost management across multiple platforms and work collaboratively with cloud resource owners to report, manage and optimize cloud spend.
Protect cloud resources
Leverage policies and automation to improve cloud security
Avoid security holes with policies that identify and alert on misconfigured networking options, unsecured data storage, non-compliant resources and policies that check for required configurations, such as backups or failover systems. Curate cloud access with a single pane of glass to control access to all your cloud providers.
Multi-cloud costs
Govern your hybrid cloud activity in one place
Leverage automated governance and financial controls to realize the ROI of your hybrid FinOps strategy. With Flexera, you can track compliance with reserved instance pricing discounts and standardize security policies to close security holes. See beyond your IaaS spend and get visibility to cloud software license and SaaS spend with our integrated platform.
Supporting your multi-cloud environment
Support for all major public cloud providers
Flexera supports all major public cloud providers, including AWS, Azure, Google, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, and Alibaba, as well as Kubernetes costs via Kubecost and OpenCost integrations. Additionally, the Common Bill Ingestion (CBI) feature allows the ingestion of public, private and custom cloud billing data for easy, ad-hoc analysis alongside billing data from other sources.
Lack of cloud governance
Why a lack of cloud governance creates risk and waste
Without a strong governance framework, the speed and scale of the cloud can lead to significant problems. Decentralized teams can spin up resources that are insecure, non-compliant or unnecessarily expensive. This lack of FinOps oversight exposes the organization to security threats and budget overruns that can undermine the value of the cloud.
- Cost overruns: Uncontrolled spend from unmanaged resources and a lack of financial accountability
- Security vulnerabilities: Misconfigured resources like unsecured data storage and open ports that create entry points for attackers
- Compliance violations: Non-compliant resources that violate industry or internal regulations, leading to potential fines and penalties
- Operational inefficiency: Inconsistent configurations and a lack of standardized processes that create complexity and slow down operations
- Cost governance: Automatically identify and act on cost-saving opportunities and budget anomalies
- Security governance: Continuously check for insecure configurations and potential vulnerabilities
- Compliance governance: Ensure your cloud resources adhere to regulatory and corporate standards
- Operational governance: Enforce tagging policies and identify operational inefficiencies
Governance framework
Automate your governance framework with a powerful policy engine
Flexera enables you to implement a robust cloud governance framework through automation. Our platform offers over 150 out-of-the-box policies for cost, operations, security and compliance. You can apply these policies across your multi-cloud environment to automatically identify issues, send alerts and take corrective action. (Refers to current page section "Automate cloud governance")
Comprehensive governance
Building a comprehensive governance strategy
Effective cloud governance requires a holistic approach that balances the needs of finance, security and operations. Flexera provides the tools to build and enforce policies across all the critical pillars of governance.
- Financial management: Enforcing budget controls and optimizing costs to maximize the business value of the cloud
- Security and compliance: Ensuring the cloud environment is secure and adheres to all relevant regulations and standards
- Operational efficiency: Standardizing configurations and processes to ensure the cloud environment runs smoothly and efficiently
- Access control: Managing user permissions and access to cloud resources to maintain a secure posture
- Accelerate innovation safely: Allow developers to move fast without introducing security risks or cost overruns
- Improve your security posture: Proactively identify and remediate security vulnerabilities across your hybrid and multi-cloud environment
- Ensure continuous compliance: Maintain adherence to regulatory standards like GDPR, HIPAA and PCI DSS
- Drive financial accountability: Support a FinOps culture of cost-consciousness by providing teams with visibility into their spend
Enabling innovation
Enabling innovation with a safe and efficient cloud
Strong cloud governance isn't about restricting access—; it's about enabling speed and agility in a secure and cost-effective way. By automating governance, you empower your engineering teams to innovate faster with the confidence that they are operating within established guardrails.
The Flexera advantage
The Flexera advantage: policy, automation and a hybrid view
Flexera’s cloud governance solutions provide a powerful and flexible policy engine combined with a unique ability to see your entire hybrid IT estate. This enables you to govern not just your public cloud but your on-premises, cloud licenses and SaaS environments as well.
Extensive policy library |
Powerful automation |
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| Leverage a library of over 150 out-of-the-box policies for cost, security and compliance or easily create custom policies to meet your specific needs | Move beyond simple alerts and automatically take corrective action on policy violations |
| Apply policies across all major public cloud providers including AWS, Azure and Google Cloud | Integrate with ITSM tools to create automated workflows for approvals and incident management |
Choose Flexera to implement a robust and automated governance framework that scales with your business.
Your cloud governance questions answered
Frequently asked questions
Cloud governance is the set of policies, processes and controls that organizations use to manage their cloud usage. It aims to enhance security, manage risks, control costs and ensure compliance in the cloud.
Flexera provides a policy engine that continuously scans your cloud accounts for violations of predefined rules. When a violation is detected the platform can automatically trigger an action such as sending an alert, generating a report or even remediating the issue directly.
Yes. In addition to over 150 out-of-the-box policies you can easily create your own custom policies to enforce rules that are unique to your organization's security or operational needs.
Governance is a core discipline of FinOps. By automating cost governance, you can ensure that teams adhere to budgets, utilize cost-effective resources and follow best practices for financial management in the cloud.
Flexera supports all major public cloud providers including AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure and Alibaba Cloud allowing for true multi-cloud governance.
Real-world governance and visibility with Flexera
When you talk about the overall savings we achieved [5%], 1-2% came from visibility into the data of the cloud spend using Flexera. One of the great features is the billing center, which helps in slicing and dicing the application costs for one particular application owner. They can have an overall view of their area without having 10 different dashboards.
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