Cloud Enterprise capabilities to help you govern cloud growth at scale

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Hi community! 👋

I'm Kellcie, and I'm on the Platform team at Atlassian.

Many of you here in the Enterprise group are managing large-scale Atlassian deployments with thousands of users, so governance is top of mind. That’s why you would probably be unsurprised to hear that 80% of enterprise cloud customers use Guard Standard. Cloud Enterprise includes Guard Standard for that reason, but the plan also goes even further to help you establish proactive governance at scale. 

For those of you who may be navigating a period of growth and wishing for even stronger admin controls, I wanted to highlight three capabilities exclusive to Cloud Enterprise to help you strengthen your security posture.

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1. Plan for growth with app requests

At the enterprise level, having oversight of how tools are deployed is essential for long-term stability. When users create Jira, Confluence, or Jira Service Management sites on their own, it’s harder to see where work lives, which policies apply, and how costs are being allocated.

With app requests, a Cloud Enterprise exclusive capability, you can see all requests for new apps in one place. App requests route new sites through a consistent approval flow so users can still request what they need, while you prevent unmanaged sites, surprise costs, and ongoing security and cleanup work for admins.

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2. Run multiple sites without multiple headaches

As organizations grow, work often gets scattered across different sites and regions, especially when you've acquired Jira and Confluence sites through years of M&A. This fragmentation makes it challenging to get an overview of what's happening across the business, maintain consistent policies, and manage risks.

Cloud Enterprise gives you a multi-site architecture, allowing you to keep workspaces organized by business unit or region while enabling centralized administration of up to 150 sites for the same app within a single plan.

Each site can have the configurations, workflows, and access policies that make sense for its teams, while still rolling up to the same centralized admin controls. This structure allows you to isolate high-value data in dedicated workspaces and to assign certain data to specific sites to limit access and minimize exposure.

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3. Simplify access across multiple identity providers

Part of governance means ensuring the right people have access to your Atlassian apps and data. With Guard Standard, you can connect an identity provider and manage identity provider directories, provision and sync users and groups, and set user authentication policies.

But, if you're inheriting multiple sites from various entities or operating across a global organization, what happens if you rely on multiple identity providers? With Cloud Enterprise, you can connect multiple identity providers. This gives you the flexibility you need to manage complex business, regulatory, or security requirements.

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If your organization is growing and you need additional controls to scale usage securely, Cloud Enterprise might be the next step. 

Have questions or want to share how you're currently managing cloud growth at your org? Please share your thoughts in the comments!

Cheers,

Kellcie

[Chris Ogden]

Hi Kellcie,

I work at a highly acquisitive organisation so I am constantly migrating Jira/Confluence spaces between sites (but mainly to our main Enterprise Jira and Confluence). Are there any plans to add a user multiselect like Guard has in the interface for the site user admin interface? A migration always brings people over we may not want or need, and either removing/suspending individual users on a particular site is extremely time consuming to do one-by-one. 

Guard is fine in this respect, but only for domains that are claimed. For those that are not, user management is more time consuming.

Having a user multiselect would help greatly there, as would a multi select in user groups to remove people. This would allow us to save seats for people who do not require them and greatly increase our (my!) efficiency. Thanks.