Overview
ISO/IEC TR 10822-1:2025 - Cloud computing - Multi-cloud management - Part 1: Overview and use cases is a 2025 Technical Report from ISO/IEC that summarizes the management challenges and practical management activities for multi‑cloud deployments. Based on ISO/IEC 22123‑1, ISO/IEC 22123‑3 and ISO/IEC 5140, the document provides a non‑normative overview, user and functional views, a functional architecture, and detailed use cases to explain how to manage services across multiple cloud service providers (CSPs).
Key topics
The report addresses core multi‑cloud management topics and functions, including:
- Cloud service discovery and publishing - finding and visualizing services across CSPs
- Resource management and provisioning - deployment, provisioning and deprovisioning of resources and services
- Service orchestration and scheduling - cloud service scheduler and orchestration across platforms
- Cost optimization and billing/metering - centralized billing and consumption‑based decisions
- Security, privacy and access control - integrated identity management and security/privacy management
- Policy‑based governance - uniform policy definition and enforcement across clouds
- Interoperability and API abstraction - API abstraction, aggregation, integration, composition and connection management
- Monitoring, SLA and auditing - multi‑cloud monitoring, SLA/SLO management, reporting and auditing
- User interfaces and libraries - uniform user interface, service catalogue, library and discovery functions
Note: ISO/IEC TR 10822‑1 is a Technical Report; it provides guidance and use cases rather than prescriptive, normative requirements.
Practical applications
ISO/IEC TR 10822‑1 is aimed at organizations and professionals who design, deploy or govern multi‑cloud environments:
- Cloud service customers (CSCs) evaluating multi‑cloud strategy, vendor selection and governance models
- Cloud architects and platform engineers implementing orchestration, API abstraction and provisioning workflows
- Cloud service integrators and partners (CSNs) building aggregators or integrators for multi‑cloud management solutions
- IT procurement, security and compliance teams needing guidance on policy enforcement, auditing and SLA negotiation
- SaaS/PaaS/IaaS vendors and platform providers that want interoperable management features or compatibility with standards
Use cases in the report illustrate workflows such as API discovery, interoperable provisioning, SLA negotiation, billing/metering decisions and policy enforcement.
Related standards
ISO/IEC TR 10822‑1:2025 is a practical reference for organizations pursuing robust, interoperable multi‑cloud management, helping bridge vendor heterogeneity with consistent governance, security and operational practices.