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# Governance capability
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 The Governance capability enables you to define and enforce business and regulatory policies for your cloud environment. Policies can include rules for your environment or risk definitions. A portion of your governance policies is embedded in other capabilities across your environment to ensure that you meet your requirements.

 

 **Stakeholders:** 
+  Governance, Risk Management, and Compliance (Primary) 
+  Finance 
+  Security 
+  Central IT 

 **Personas: ** 
+  **Cloud Team** - the team(s) who make cloud available to customers. 
+  **Information Security Team** - the members of the cloud team responsible for security in AWS.
+  **Finance Team** - the team responsible for reporting, allocating, and forecasting cloud costs. 
+  **Compliance Team** - the team responsible for compliance. 
+  **Procurement Team ** - the team responsible for procurement of services from the cloud service provider. 

 **Scenarios:** 
+ **CF26 - S1: Cloud service provider relationship**
+ **CF26 - S2: Operational standards**
+ **CF26 - S3: Organizational cloud awareness**
+ **CF26 - S4: Policy communication**
+ **CF26 - S5: Governance at scale**
+ **CF26 - S6: Compliance management**

Topics
+ [Overview](governance-overview.md)
+ [Establish the relationship with your cloud services provider](establish-relationship-cloud-provider.md)
+ [Define how cloud services are adopted](define-cloud-services.md)
+ [Get started with your cloud services provider](get-started-cloud-services.md)
+ [Build cloud capability across your organization](build-cloud-capability-across-organization.md)
+ [Respond to growth or change](respond-to-growth-change.md)
+ [Industry-specific governance](industry-specific-governance.md)
+ [Security Assurance on AWS](security-assurance-aws.md)