Pega Cloud GCP Early Access Subscription Documentation

Pega Cloud provides a fully-managed Cloud Service platform running Pegasystems Infinity and Pegasystem’s Strategic Applications in an as-a-service model.  Pega Cloud is managed by Pegasystems, with global and regional support models for 24 x 7 operations, security, and monitoring to help support our clients’ enterprise applications.  Clients forgo the complexities of operating and managing a Pegasystems ecosystem in favor of letting Pegasystems manage their Pegasystems application(s) for them.  Pega Cloud allows Pegasystems clients to work to get started quickly (within days of contract signature) and work to realize the value of Pegasystems solutions more rapidly.  Pega also provides several additional services on the cloud, as detailed further in this subscription documentation.

This Subsciption Documentation applies to early-adopter clients for the early access version of our Google Cloud Platform (GCP) offering.  Consult your Pega agreement or ask your account team for currently available services on the Google Cloud Platform-based Pega Cloud offering.

This Subscription Documentation  includes the following: 

Deployment Regions describes the deployment region available to our clients (identified in the client contract) and within which we geofence the client’s deployment during the term of their subscription.

Service Operations and Support describes the maintenance, monitoring, support and security locations and services we offer

• Pegasystems Global Client Support describes the client support services we offer

Service Connectivitydescribes the connectivity that is available to connect to Pega Cloud.

The Pega Cloud Service Level Agreementdescribes the Scheduled Availability for our Production Environments.

Incident Management describes how Pegasystems works to provide response and resolution for incidents that affect the Pega Cloud network and client environments. 

Change Management details how changes to Pega Cloud environments are planned, reviewed, tested, implemented, and validated to work to help protect all environments.

Disaster Recovery describes the Pega Cloud Disaster Recovery plan.

Data Backup and Restore describes how Pega Cloud Production Services provides various levels of backup and redundancy for client data, to work to help provide recovery of environments in the event of service disruption or failure.

The Pega Cloud Security Standardsarticle outlines the various security controls (technical and organizational, physical and environmental, network and infrastructure, and others) which are provided by Pegasystems for clients’ Pega Cloud environments.

Client Security Responsibilities for Pega Clouddescribes what security responsibilities are assumed by the client for a Pega Cloud environment.  This document includes both privacy & security controls, and data rights and responsibilities.

Layered Distributed Denial of Service protection in Pega Cloudexplains how Pega Cloud provides effective counterstrategies to protect against Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks.

Planning for end of Pega Cloud subscription termdescribes the clients’ options as the end of the term of their subscription approaches.

The Subscription Documentation also includes:

• The  Vulnerability Testing Policy for applications on Pega Cloud,  which describes how Pega Cloud Services clients can conduct application security assessments, when such assessments are preauthorized and performed within the stated guidelines.
• The Pega Cloud Acceptable Use Policy, which describes the permitted and prohibited activities for clients in their Pega Cloud environments.

 For additional Pega Cloud information which is not part of the Pega Cloud Subscription documentation, including Getting Started and How-Tos, see Pega Cloud.