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Infrastructure security (whether in the cloud or not) is tightly bound to accounts, roles and identities.
There are multiple questions to consider when deciding on a cloud account strategy. Some examples include:
Billing - How will resource utilization and consumption be measured and reported. Will there need to be internal chargebacks?
Business models - Will central IT act as an institutional service provider for cloud infrastructure, or will there be multiple accounts across distributed IT and research groups? How will financial responsibility be distributed across different uses of cloud infrastructure?
Governance - How will resources be allocated, secured, controlled and audited?
Operational - How will operational management, enterprise integration, network integration and AWS service limits be architected and managed?
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