Hierarchical and Domain-based Organization Management

Hierarchical and domain-based organization management is key to modern enterprise governance, especially in cloud computing. As businesses grow and diversify, this approach becomes even more crucial.

Huawei Cloud's Organizations service helps you create a structured, manageable cloud setup that aligns with your business needs. You can assign separate cloud accounts for each unit—like subsidiaries, business systems, product lines, departments, and projects—to keep them organized and independent.

This approach aligns with your current governance structure while effectively isolating faults and security issues. It confines faults and risks within individual business units, minimizing their impact and reducing potential damage.

First, hierarchical and domain-based management aligns effectively with your enterprise's governance architecture. An enterprise usually consists of multiple business units, each with specific goals, teams, and operation modes. Enterprises can mirror their organizational structure by allocating each business unit to separate cloud accounts. This clarifies each business unit's responsibilities and permissions while simplifying resource allocation and management. For example, a company has multiple subsidiaries, each with their own product lines and project teams. Each subsidiary uses its own cloud account for resource deployment. This allows independent management while ensuring consistent monitoring under the company's overall strategy.

Second, hierarchical and domain-based management has significant advantages in fault and security isolation. Cloud environments offer convenient and efficient shared resources, but they can also raise potential risks. Running all business units under one cloud account increases the risk that a fault or security issue in one business unit could impact others or the whole system. Using separate cloud accounts for each business unit helps enterprises contain faults and risks and stop them from spreading. For example, if a business system faces a security attack, the attacker can only access resources within that specific cloud account, and cannot affect other business units. This isolation mechanism significantly enhances both security and stability across the enterprise.

In addition, each business unit can view and manage only its own cloud account's resources, data, and applications. This approach protects business data by maintaining their security and privacy. Isolating data across business units prevents data leakage and tampering caused by human errors or malicious behavior. This also allows each team to concentrate on their growth while minimizing unnecessary interference and conflicts.

The IT department manages all business units with a mix of centralized and decentralized control. In this mode, each business unit operates separately within its own cloud account while the IT department uses consistent policies and tools to monitor, manage, and optimize cloud resources company-wide. For example, the IT department can create consistent security policies for all cloud accounts to meet company security requirements. They can also automate monitoring of resources in each cloud account to quickly spot and fix problems. This management approach balances business flexibility with centralized control. Business units can independently adjust resources and policies as needed to quickly respond to market changes. The IT department ensures the company's overall security, compliance, and resource utilization efficiency globally.

Finally, hierarchical and domain-based management also helps with refined cost control. Enterprises can clearly see the resource usage and costs of each business unit by billing each cloud account separately. This strongly supports cost optimization and budget management. Business units plan and adjust resources based on their budgets. The company sets and adjusts budgets and cost strategies for each business unit based on overall financial goals.