Enterprise architecture

Large enterprises that allow an account structure, cross account networking, resource deployment, and billing to develop organically run the risk of encountering governance, scaling, security, and accounting issues. This document provides a recommendation for how to address these concerns across accounts so that a robust, compliant, and scalable solution can be achieved.

This recommendation extends and complements the account and resource level guidance that is found in the IBM Cloud Framework for Financial Services and other IBM Cloud best practices such as:

• Best practices for setting up an enterprise
• Best practices for organizing resources and assigning access
• Best practices for organizing users, teams, and applications
• Best practices for working with Security and Compliance Center
• Best practices for billing and usage
• Advanced networking for IBM Cloud VPC