consulting tool · version 2026.1
Cloud Infrastructure Capability Map
A capability-oriented view of governance, architecture, platform, service, operations and enabling disciplines.
Accessible diagram transcript
Objects
- Strategy & portfolio: Direction and investment (Governance)
- Governance & policy: Guardrails and decisions (Governance)
- FinOps & commercial: Economics and suppliers (Governance)
- Security & assurance: Risk and evidence (Authorities)
- Architecture: Patterns and standards (Authorities)
- Platform product: Roadmap and adoption (Service ownership)
- Platform engineering: Automation and products (Engineering)
- Service management: Catalogue and lifecycle (Service ownership)
- Cloud operations: Reliability and support (Operations)
- Developer enablement: Paved-road adoption (Engineering)
Directed relationships
- strategy → governance: direction (handoff)
- governance → architecture: guardrails (authority)
- economics → product: unit economics (handoff)
- assurance → engineering: controls (authority)
- architecture → engineering: patterns (authority)
- product → engineering: roadmap (handoff)
- engineering → service: release (handoff)
- service → operations: service levels (handoff)
- operations → product: feedback (feedback)
- enablement → product: adoption insight (feedback)
When to use it
Use to scope an assessment, structure interviews or connect operating-model functions to improvement initiatives.
What to challenge
- Separate accountable authority from delivery execution.
- Make every important handoff directional and reviewable.
- Treat this reference pattern as a starting point, not a prescription.
Adapt it responsibly
- Rename functions to match the organization vocabulary.
- Remove elements that are genuinely out of scope.
- Validate decision rights and handoffs with accountable stakeholders.
Model contents
10 objects and 10 directed relationships. Every object keeps a stable semantic ID.
One model, multiple representations
The browser view and editable file are generated from the same canonical graph, so labels, roles and relationship direction stay aligned.
Clear visual grammar
Shape, color and connector style distinguish actors, governance, authorities, services, engineering, operations and providers.