Cloud Governance

concept australia Updated Sep 10, 2026 1 min read cloud-governance.md

Governance refers to the limitations that you can set on available cloud resources.

Types of governance

Type	Description
Quotas	Quotas are limitations or requirements for groups and users on CIs or cloud resources. Use quotas to prevent wasteful resource usage in your cloud environment.
Policies	A cloud policy can override a property value set by a user, create an approval task, reserve an IP address, pre-populate or hide form fields, execute custom scripts, call the Cloud API, or start or abort subflows. It gives you system-wide control over approvals, resource operations, blueprint operations, or catalog item settings.
Pools	A resource pool is a query or script that filters a table. You configure a resource pool to limit the values that are available to users when they request a catalog item.
Permissions	Permissions are user group-level access rights to features in the Cloud Provisioning and Governance application and to specific records in the instance, such as blueprints or cloud accounts.

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title: Cloud Governance
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# Cloud Governance

Governance refers to the limitations that you can set on available cloud resources.

## Types of governance

|Type|Description|
|----|-----------|
|[Quotas](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/australia/markdown/australia/it-operations-management/cloud-configuration-governance/quotas.md)|Quotas are limitations or requirements for groups and users on CIs or cloud resources. Use quotas to prevent wasteful resource usage in your cloud environment.|
|[Policies](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/australia/markdown/australia/it-operations-management/cloud-configuration-governance/cloud-policy.md)|A cloud policy can override a property value set by a user, create an approval task, reserve an IP address, pre-populate or hide form fields, execute custom scripts, call the Cloud API, or start or abort subflows. It gives you system-wide control over approvals, resource operations, blueprint operations, or catalog item settings.|
|[Pools](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/australia/markdown/australia/it-operations-management/cloud-configuration-governance/pools.md)|A resource pool is a query or script that filters a table. You configure a resource pool to limit the values that are available to users when they request a catalog item.|
|[Permissions](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/australia/markdown/australia/it-operations-management/cloud-configuration-governance/cloud-permissions.md)|Permissions are user group-level access rights to features in the Cloud Provisioning and Governance application and to specific records in the instance, such as blueprints or cloud accounts.|