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Multi-Cloud Strategy for Cloud Architects - Second Edition

By : Jeroen Mulder
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Multi-Cloud Strategy for Cloud Architects - Second Edition

By: Jeroen Mulder

Overview of this book

Are you ready to unlock the full potential of your enterprise with the transformative power of multi-cloud adoption? As a cloud architect, you understand the challenges of navigating the vast array of cloud services and moving data and applications to public clouds. But with 'Multi-Cloud Strategy for Cloud Architects, Second Edition', you'll gain the confidence to tackle these complexities head-on. This edition delves into the latest concepts of BaseOps, FinOps, and DevSecOps, including the use of the DevSecOps Maturity Model. You'll learn how to optimize costs and maximize security using the major public clouds - Azure, AWS, and Google Cloud. Examples of solutions by the increasingly popular Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) and Alibaba Cloud have been added in this edition. Plus, you will discover cutting-edge ideas like AIOps and GreenOps. With practical use cases, including IoT, data mining, Web3, and financial management, this book empowers you with the skills needed to develop, release, and manage products and services in a multi-cloud environment. By the end of this book, you'll have mastered the intricacies of multi-cloud operations, financial management, and security. Don't miss your chance to revolutionize your enterprise with multi-cloud adoption.
Table of Contents (23 chapters)
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Index

Understanding the dynamics of security and compliance

Security and compliance are two completely different things, yet they are closely related to each other. Security policies are required to achieve compliance. We will get into the relationship a bit further in this section.

First, let’s get a good definition of security. Security involves all activity to protect assets of a company and the users of their systems. This activity can be defined in security controls: physical, technical, and administrative. Typically, we don’t have to worry about physical controls in cloud. Microsoft, Amazon, Google, Alibaba, and Oracle will make sre that their datacenters and all the hardware that’s in the datacenter is well protected. We do have to worry about the technical and the administrative controls. We need to take action to for instance implement antivirus and antimalware software on workloads that we host in the cloud: these are technical controls. Administrative controls...