Cloud-native security protects applications designed and built on the cloud. On a higher level, “cloud native” is a fundamentally new approach to application design and deployment, leveraging native cloud capabilities like auto-scaling, continuous deployment, and auto-management. It is an open source approach leveraging IaaS capabilities (e.g. AWS, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud) to create new tools and services that are more responsive in the age of the customer. From a developer’s perspective,
Cloud-native applications are typically built using a microservices or container-based approach running on Linux. These applications are designed to be lightweight, flexible, and focused on single tasks. Ultimately, they’re like smaller building blocks that are pieced together to achieve speed, scalability, and efficiency savings that you simply can’t get with a traditional monolithic architecture.
Simply put,
Microservice-centric: A cloud-native application today must be built on microservices. Traditional monolithic applications do not support continuous deployment, continuous update, and auto-scaling, which are some of the core benefits of
Portable: Being cloud-native means that your applications should not be tied to a specific cloud platform. In a cloud-native environment, interactions between the application components are done via standard service APIs. Operations tasks such as deployment, monitoring, and workload management are all conducted via either open source or common functions that can run across different clouds.
Automatically managed: Common workload management tasks such as deployment, updates, monitoring, and scaling are all done automatically. Manual tasks, including manual security analysis or configuration, are the exception rather than the rule.
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Replicating your on-premises setup in an IaaS cloud: Don’t think just because you migrated parts of your application environment to run in some EC2 instances, you are
Packaging your monolithic applications with APIs: Adding APIs to your monolithic applications do not make them