Cloud Governance: Making DevOps Automation Effective

I see cloud automation of all types implemented to control and/or secure cloud assets. Examples of this type of automation using Amazon Web Services (AWS) include the following:Preventing unauthorized entries in security groups allowing ingress from 0.0.0.0/0 (security)Alerts for Creating IAM users (possible security risk)Forwarding application logs to Splunk (operational effectiveness)Scheduling up-time for non-production assets (cost savings)While these examples are AWS-specific, the princi...