Cloud Native Architectures

Risk and compliance

Risk is inevitable, whenever a company stores data, processes transactions, or interacts with their customers. They are dealing with risky situations since there will always be bad actors that want to steal or manipulate the data, transactions, or interactions. But bad actors are not the only risk that a company faces; compute resource faults or software bugs are also a very real possibility that must be managed appropriately by any company. The cloud offers a shift in risk, but not a reduction in risk. Most major cloud providers operate under a shared responsibility model for implementation of security and controls. Typically, this means that the cloud provider owns and operates (and assumes the risk for) the concrete ...