Analyzing Information System Security and IT Governance in Amazon

This report provides an overview of IT governance and information system security within Amazon. It highlights the importance of IT governance frameworks in managing and monitoring IT resources, focusing on Amazon's emphasis on integration, standardization, and data utilization. The report discusses the role of cloud-based governance approaches, particularly within AWS, and their potential to reduce costs and address security issues. It concludes that effective IT governance planning, including disaster recovery and data protection strategies, is crucial for organizations like Amazon to achieve strategic goals and maintain data integrity. Desklib provides access to this and other solved assignments for students.

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Introduction
IT governance framework can be stated as kind of framework which helps in defining
certain number of ways and methods that are needed by organization (Rebollo et al., 2015). It
helps in implementing, managing, monitoring of IT governance within organization like
Amazon. It mainly tends to provide certain number of guideline along with measuring of
effective utilization of IT-based resources (Jnr & Pa, 2015). IT governance can help Amazon by
providing a proper road map for evaluation of performance and its effectiveness. It is mainly
needed for achieving performance in this IT department.
The upcoming pages of the report mainly deals with IT governance planning. After that, a
selection has been done concerning governance framework of Amazon. The report ends with a
proper suggestion for the selected plan.
Discussion
Amazon tends to follow high value on integration that is cross-selling capability,
understanding the online retail system and lastly cloud computing. Secondly, Amazon is
considered to be high on standards which come up with same kind of buying process in different
categories of product (Peiris, Balachandran & Sharma, 2018). Amazon tends to follow the same
process in various countries of the world. The core business process of Amazon is online retail,
cloud computing, digital distribution that are audio, video and lastly audio. Amazon tends to

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follow proper kind of data that is high standardization, understanding the buying pattern of
customer and its preferences. Amazon tends to make use number of technology like cloud
computing-based infrastructure, data warehouse system and lastly proper kind of
recommendation.
Governance can be defined as an important area which is misinterpreted in most of the
cases. It is mainly conveying to wide range of description along with explanation. Governance
can be easily completed within the solution of AWS (ul Musawir et al., 2017). Cloud based
governing approach can be considered to be alternate to premise of solution. It is considered to
be costly and complex which is needed for achieving the required value needed for IT resources.
Organization like Amazon are very aware of the current challenges and involved cost. It is all
about maintaining proper relation for addressing the security issues (Peiris, Balachandran &
Sharma, 2018). AWS aims to offer proper kind of governance feature which is needed to
implement as per the needs. AWS governance can reduce the overall cost by 80% in comparison
to on-premises.
Conclusion
The fact can be concluded from the above pages that reports deals with IT governance
planning. An analysis has been done concerning current governance plan which exits in Amazon.
Both the aspect that is disaster recovery and protection of data is considered to be an important

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insight which is needed by organization like Amazon. It can be considered to be a challenging
factor for achieving the proper strategies so that proper kind of data can be accumulated. There
are different kind of phases like planning, testing and lastly failover which is costly and complex.

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