10 Benefits of cloud thinking
This chapter covers
- How externalizing configuration improves security
- Structure as separate, stateless processes
- How centralized logging improves security
- Structuring admin functionality
- The three R’s of enterprise security
To successfully run applications in a cloud environment, you need to design them in a way that enables you to fully take advantage of the possibilities the cloud can give you. This means your applications are required to adhere to certain principles and display certain properties, such as being stateless or environment-agnostic. Cloud environments bring a new set of standards for building applications. An interesting observation is that this new way of building applications and systems has proven to be beneficial regardless of whether you’re running them in the cloud or not. Even more interesting is that we’ve found there are also benefits from a security perspective.