AWS has long ruled the cloud platform game. But today more and more companies are branching out and using additional providers as well. Often this isn’t a matter of replacing one with another, but of different business requirements (such as managing risk and costs) being suited to different cloud vendors. Other factors for using more than one provider center on the fact that vendors work to price their offerings competitively and continually add new features. Additionally, many organizations that run Windows are offered free Azure credits. So why not take advantage and reduce your overall cloud costs?
There’s nothing wrong with running a multi-cloud environment — in fact doing so may be part of a well-crafted strategy — but when you do so, you want to make sure that you are taking appropriate security precautions. In this post, we’ll cover five principles you should strive for when you make the move to a multi-cloud environment. But first, let’s take a look at the major players. Read more “5 Principles for Running Securely in a Multi-Cloud Environment”