Cloud Computing Security

As many organizations are leveraging cloud-based technologies and migrating their critical data onto the cloud, it becomes even more imperative to have a holistic view of data security on the cloud. Though the major cloud providers offer multiple ways of securing data, using them to your advantage is a big challenge.

Cloud security is a set of policies, strategies, controls, procedures, and practices which are designed to safeguard the data, resources, and applications hosted on the cloud.

Talking of security from the perspective of Amazon Web Services, below are the best practices to be followed in securing VPC in AWS:

• Subnets to be created in multiple Availability Zones

An availability zone is one or more discrete data centres with redundant power, networking, and connectivity in an AWS region. Using multiple availability zones makes applications highly available, fault-tolerant, and scalable.

• Use of security groups to control the traffic to EC2 instances in your subnets

It provides control over the traffic that is allowed to reach and leave the resources that it is associated with. Every VPC comes with a default security group, though it has a facility to create additional ones, creating minimum helps reduce the risk of error.

• Inbound access…