Securing your workloads in AWS
Running workloads in self-managed on-premises data centers requires safeguarding against a variety of attack vectors, such as applications, platforms, and infrastructure. With providers such as AWS entering the game, your risk postures need to be re-evaluated. The moment you move your applications to the cloud, you transfer some of those risks to the cloud provider, and in other cases, mitigate or introduce new ones. The focus of this section will be to walk you through some practical scenarios and approaches around security in AWS. We will center our discussions around an internet-facing web application, as an example. Let’s start with the common problems software teams face at the onset of their cloud journey.
Security challenges for operating workloads in the cloud
There are two common blockers that software teams adopting AWS face, or any other cloud provider for that matter, when it comes to security.