Public Cloud Service Agreements: What to Expect and What to Negotiate

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Public Cloud Service Agreements: What to Expect and What to Negotiate Version 2.0.1

August, 2016

Contents What is New in Version 2.0 ................................................................................................................3 Acknowledgements............................................................................................................................3 Executive Summary............................................................................................................................4 Current Anatomy of a Cloud Service Agreement .................................................................................5 Customer Agreement................................................................................................................................ 5 Acceptable Use Policies (AUPs)................................................................................................................. 6 Cloud Service Level Agreements ............................................................................................................... 6 Privacy Policies .......................................................................................................................................... 6 What You Can Expect and What You Should Negotiate .......................................................................7 Step 1: Understand Roles and Responsibilities......................................................................................... 7 Step 2: Evaluate Business Level Policies ................................................................................................... 9 Step 3: Understand Service and Deployment Model Differences .......................................................... 14 Step 4: Identify Critical Performance Objectives .................................................................................... 15 Step 5: Evaluate Security, Privacy and Data Residency Requirements................................................... 18 Step 6: Identify Service Management Requirements ............................................................................. 24 Step 7: Prepare for Service Failure Management ................................................................................... 30 Step 8: Understand the Disaster Recovery Plan ..................................................................................... 33 Step 9: Define an Effective Governance Process .................................................................................... 34 Step 10: Understand the Exit Process ..................................................................................................... 35 Conclusion ....................................................................................................................................... 37 References....................................................................................................................................... 38 Appendix A – Analysis of AUP Content.............................................................................................. 42 Appendix B – Analysis of Cloud SLAs ................................................................................................. 43 Appendix C – Metrics Programs ........................................................................................................ 45 Appendix D – Security ...................................................................................................................... 46 Appendix E – Privacy ........................................................................................................................ 47

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