10 Other Resources

This section links to any external documents that may be relevant, such as standards documents or other descriptions of this Building Block that may be useful.

10.1 Future Considerations

  • Include a wider range of internationally recognized frameworks, e.g. European Union Agency for Cybersecurity (ENISA) guidelines, GDPR for the EU, and other regional standards such as Singapore’s Personal Data Protection Act (PDPA)

  • Extend guidance on scalability taking into consideration diverse needs of nations with varying geographic and demographic contexts (e.g. geo-distributed architectures and multi-region deployments) and edge computing for improving service delivery in remote or underserved areas

  • Investigate where zero trust security should be included

  • Add requirements on data residency and thereby addressing the need for critical data to be stored within national borders or in compliant jurisdictions

  • Highlight the importance and impact of Service Level Agreements (SLA) and multi-vendor strategies to meet stringent uptime and redundancy requirements

  • Include strategies for implementing FinOps and provide guidelines on designing cost-effective, sustainable cloud infrastructures that align with global sustainability goals