Azure Security Handbook: A Comprehensive Guide for Defending Your Enterprise Environment

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K. OtsAzure Security Handbookhttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-7292-3_1

1. Introduction to Cloud Security Architecture

Karl Ots¹  

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Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland

 

Cloud computing is perhaps the largest information technology megatrend of this decade. The promises of commoditization of core infrastructure services, faster time to market, and adoption of brand-new technologies such as artificial intelligence or quantum computing are alluring.

Furthermore, the global disruptions of the COVID-19 pandemic in the beginning of this decade proved that the hyperscale cloud providers can answer the most unpredictable demand thrown at them.

The pandemic validated cloud’s ...