Design and development of a solution for the management, compliance and governance of company cloud accounts

Abstract

This thesis is a project of the Arhs Group under the supervision of ARHS Spikeseed.

One of the entity of this group uses cloud technologies (essentially AWS and Azure). The goal is to take advantage of this platform in their traditional development projects by providing an infrastructure on the cloud (CI/CD servers, ...). For this, this thesis must implement:

1) Basis blocks to be able to start an ARHS project, such as infrastructure as code, automatisation, ... while following the best practices of the company.

2) The development of a tool to be able to manage the cloud accounts for each project, manage the projects (and their cost), the integration of new users, ...

The thesis starts with an analysis phase consisting of:

a) Identify the requirements for the project and the technologies that has to be used (since this is from scratch)

b) Define a strategy to be able to to handle multiple cloud providers, even though this will be mainly about integrating with AWS.

c) Apply and search for valuable security compliance rules accross cloud accounts