What is the cloud operation (CloudOps) model, and what role does automation play?
CloudOps, or the cloud operational model, encompasses a collection of guidelines and safeguards that are established, tracked, and adjusted as needed to manage expenses, boost productivity, and mitigate potential security risks. It can help guide your people, processes, and the technology associated with your cloud infrastructure, security, and operations. An operational model also helps you develop and implement controls to manage security, budget, and compliance across your workloads in the cloud.
Implementing cloud automation empowers organizations to construct streamlined cloud operational models through the automated creation, modification, and removal of cloud resources. Although the concept of cloud computing initially promised the ability to utilize services as required, many organizations still rely on manual processes to provision resources, conduct testing, recognize resource redundancy...