What is the cloud operation (CloudOps) model and the role of automation?

A cloud operation model, also known as CloudOps, is a set of rules and guardrails, which you create, monitor, and amend as necessary to control costs, improve efficiency, and eliminate security risks. It can help guide your people, processes, and the technology associated with your cloud infrastructure, security, and operations. An operation model also helps you develop and implement controls to manage security, budget, and compliance across your workloads in the cloud.

Cloud automation enables organizations to build efficient cloud operations models by creating, modifying, and tearing down resources on the cloud automatically. One of the significant promises of cloud computing was that services could be used on demand, if and when needed. But in reality, most organizations employ manual processes to spin up resources, test them, identify when they are no longer needed, and take them down. This can represent immense...