Product Overview

Introduction

CoreStack is a next-generation multi-cloud governance platform that empowers enterprises to rapidly achieve autonomous and continuous cloud governance and compliance at scale. CoreStack is used today by many leading global enterprises across multiple industries.

CoreStack Overview

CoreStack is delivered to end users as multiple offerings that bundle a specific set of cloud governance pillars based on your needs. CoreStack is offered as:

Enterprise Cloud Governance (ECG)
Enterprise Cloud Compliance (ECC)
MSP Cloud Governance (MCG)

This guide provides an overview of the different CoreStack offerings and associated cloud governance pillars that are being offered as part of it.

Cloud Governance Pillars

Governing your cloud assets involves cost-efficient and effective management of resources in a cloud environment while adhering to security and compliance standards. There are several factors involved in a successful implementation of cloud governance. CoreStack has encompassed all these factors into its cloud governance pillars. The following table explains the key cloud governance pillars developed by CoreStack.

Pillar	Purpose
Operations	This section provides you the capability to operate and manage your cloud resources efficiently using various features such as automation, monitoring, notifications, activity tracking.
Security	This section guides you to manage the security governance of your cloud accounts and identify the security vulnerabilities & threats and resolve them.
Cost	This section guides you to create a customized controlling mechanism that can control your cloud expenses within budget and reduce cloud waste by continually discovering and eliminating inefficient resources.
Access	This section allows you to configure secure access of resources in your cloud environment and protect the users’ data & assets from unauthorized access.
Resource	This section guides you to define, enforce, and track the resource naming and tagging standards, sizing, and their usage by region. It also enables you to follow consistent & standard practices pertaining to resource deployment, management, and reporting.
Compliance	This section guides you to assess your cloud environment for its compliance status against standards and regulations that are relevant to your organization – ISO, NIST, HIPAA, PCI, CIS, FedRAMP, AWS Well-Architected framework, and custom standards.
Self Service	This section helps you to configure a simplified self-service cloud consumption model for end users that are tied to approval workflows. It enables you to automate repetitive tasks and focus on key deliverables.

Enterprise Cloud Governance (ECG)

The ECG bundle includes the core cloud governance capabilities such as Operations, Security, Cost, Access, Resource. These capabilities allow you to run an optimized, secure, compliant, and resilient cloud environment.

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Enterprise Cloud Compliance (ECC)

The ECC bundle includes the following cloud governance capabilities: Security, Access, Resource, Compliance. These capabilities help you to ensure continuous cloud compliance of your resources across different industry standards and benchmarks.

User guide topics:

MSP Cloud Governance (MCG)

The MCG bundle provides all the cloud governance capabilities available in CoreStack: Operations, Security, Cost, Access, Resource. Compliance, Self Service. These capabilities enable you to ensure continuous cloud compliance of your resources.

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User Guide Summary

The following is the list of user guide topics that are relevant for each CoreStack bundle.

Pillar	ECG	ECC	MCG
Getting Started	View	View	View
Onboarding	View	View	View
Account Governance	View	View	View
Operations	View		View
Security	View	View	View
Cost	View		View
Access	View	View	View
Resource	View	View	View
Compliance		View	View
Self Service			View
Recommendations	View	View	View
Administration	View	View	View
Integrations	View	View	View
Reports	View	View	View