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title: Cloud Governance
description: Governance refers to the limitations that you can set on available cloud resources.
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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. A cloud policy 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.|