Regardless of a native and third-party tool designed to provide rich functionality across one or multiple cloud providers, the platform must be able to provide the following features at the very LEAST:

• Provisioning
  • Acquire cloud TYPES (public, PRIVATE, hybrid) as well as cloud services, products and resources from the provider through self, advanced or dynamic subscription model. 
  • Create, edit and delete resources.
  • Workloads Management.
  • Automation and Orchestration
  • Configuration Management
  • Cloud Deployment and Consumption
  • Virtual Machine Management
  • Application Migration
  • Workflow Orchestration
• Service Management
  • Receive and fulfil a request to access.
  • Deploy and MANAGE cloud resources.
• Information and Event Management
  • Monitor performance and other metrics.
  • Manage incident, problem and log files.

• Change Management: manage the configuration and changes.

• Security Management
  • Identity and Access Management
  • Encryption Implementation
  • Key Management
  • Endpoint Security
  • Mobile Device Security
• Compliance and Governance
  • Risk Assessment
  • Vulnerability Assessment
  • Threat Analysis
  • Compliance to Standards, Laws, and Regulations
  • Audit, REVIEW and Investigation
  • Service Governance
  • Resource Governance

• Cost Management: budgeting, expense, rightsizing, chargeback and billing.
• Performance Monitoring: monitor the network, application, storage, computing and other resources.
• Continuity and Recovery: enable business continuity and disaster recovery processes and activities across our cloud environment.