Citation:

Sateesh Reddy Adavelli, 2021. "Policy Center to the Cloud: An Analysis of AWS and Snowflake’s Role in Cloud-Based Policy Management Solutions", ESP Journal of Engineering & Technology Advancements 1(1): 253-261.

Abstract:

Organizations are migrating their policy management systems from the ground to the cloud, changing how they manage, secure and scale their operations. This paper analyses how Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Snowflake support robust and efficient cloud-based policy management solutions. This marriage of sort of AWS, which has an almost panoply of cloud services, and Snowflake, which is very well known for its data warehousing and analytics capabilities, makes sense because it is an enterprise in which you will want to modernize your policy management. Ways to explore Amazon’s infrastructural offerings, such as IAM (Identity and Access Management) and Security Hub, are also discussed as key components in the path to governance and compliance in a cloud environment. Snowflake’s ability to merge and process large sets of data worldwide to drive dynamic policy changes, predictive analysis, and real time insight punts is unique. Finally, this paper discusses the critical challenges this paper addresses, ranging from security, high interoperability, and cost optimization, and how these platforms address these hurdles and features, such as Zero Trust, automated scaling, and native integration with enterprise systems. Using case studies and the best practices, this analysis offers actionable insights for organizations that want to use AWS and Snowflake to manage cloud policy. These findings indicate that a combined approach using AWS and Snowflake looks to improve our operational efficiency and ensure we comply with the existing framework to be ready for future advancements in the cloud native policy ecosystems.

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Keywords:

Cloud-based policy management, AWS, Snowflake, Identity and Access Management (IAM), Predictive Analytics.