Cloud Center of Excellence

CCoE Explained

The missing piece: a Cloud Center of Excellence (CCoE)

A CCoE is a working model that embeds governance, clarity, and rhythm into your daily operations across teams, tools, and domains. Done right, it becomes the cockpit of your cloud.

With a CCoE in place, you:

Regain visibility and ownership across cloud domains
Break through team silos and delivery delays
Cut costs with FinOps built into operations
Apply policy, security, and compliance by default
Make faster, sharper decisions with real accountability

Common blockers a CCoE solves

“We don’t know who owns what.”
Clarify roles, escalation paths, and platform responsibilities.

“Cloud costs are spiraling.”
FinOps is embedded, not added after the fact.

“It’s getting too complex to manage.”
Use shared backlogs, IaC guardrails, and Kubernetes policies to control sprawl.

“Nobody follows the governance model.”
Combine change enablement, coaching, and comms to make it stick.

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What you get: CloudNation’s CCoE proposition

Start with CCoE Launchpad

Your foundation: governance rhythms, KPIs, ownership models, and role clarity.

Standard deliverables:

Stakeholder map
Governance rhythm structure
Baseline KPI and role overview
Onboarding kit with templates, checklists, and collaboration models

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Grow with CCoE-as-a-Service

We help operate your CCoE until your internal team is ready to take over.

Standard deliverables:

Shared governance backlog and cadence
Co-staffed KPI review sessions
Escalation register with named owners
Governance decision log (captured across domains)

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Fix ownership with Cloud Operating Model Advisory

Define who does what, how they escalate, and where the boundaries are.

Standard deliverables:

Platform ownership and RACI map
Escalation path diagrams per domain (platform, security, compliance)
Decision-rights alignment across teams
Operating model design (centralized, federated, hybrid)

Make your backlog work for you: Cloud Backlog Grooming

No more graveyards of stale epics. Prioritize what matters.

Standard deliverables:

Structured backlog format with governance categories
Prioritization rubric (value, risk, effort)
Sprint-ready backlog entries with clarity of owner and decision path
Optional backlog quality audit and tuning

Train your people: CloudNation Academy

Platform governance, cloud-native thinking, and leadership skills that scale.

Standard deliverables:

Custom training paths (IaC, FinOps, DevSecOps)
Practical labs and workshop templates
Governance maturity assessment pre/post track
Role-based curriculum (Platform Lead, Compliance Manager, CCoE Facilitator)

Drive change that sticks: Change Enablement

Change Enablement embeds new ways of working from the inside out.

Standard deliverables:

Stakeholder & persona mapping
Internal communications plan for CCoE adoption
Coaching plan for leadership and resistant roles
Sentiment tracking and nudge campaign starter kit

Your full CCoE engagement: what’s delivered

Governance rhythm blueprint and KPI dashboard templates
Escalation matrix and platform ownership model
Cloud governance backlog with prioritization logic
Stakeholder review cadence and documentation formats
Control register (mapped to ISO, FinOps, or internal policy)
Onboarding pack for CCoE members (roles, cadences, templates)
“I do, we do, you do” enablement and transition plan

These outputs ensure that your CCoE doesn’t live in a slide deck, but in your actual delivery process.

Visma

Visma Circle built the foundation for scalable growth by migrating its Djuma platform from private cloud to Microsoft Azure, with CloudNation as strategic partner. Through Infrastructure as Code, built-in policy controls, and a joint DevOps approach, the platform team now operates as a true Cloud Center of Excellence. The result: a compliant, future-ready Azure environment that empowers development teams to deliver faster, without compromising control.

Orbital Eye

At Orbital Eye, the move to AWS was more than technical, it was a strategic step forward. With support from CloudNation’s Cloud Competence Center of Excellence (CCoE), the team embraced a scalable infrastructure using Terraform, GitHub Actions, and AWS managed services. Through hands-on coaching and close collaboration, they gained the skills to independently build and manage their data pipelines, no black-box setups, just full ownership. Today, CloudNation remains a trusted sparring partner, while Orbital Eye continues to scale on its own terms.