Investigating the origin of activity in cloud-native infrastructure—and understanding which activity is a potential threat—can be a challenging, time-consuming task for organizations. Cloud environments are complex by nature, comprising thousands of ephemeral, interconnected resources that generate large volumes of alerts, logs, metrics, and other data at any given time.

Editor’s note: This is Part 2 of a five-part cloud security series that will cover protecting an organization’s network perimeter, endpoints, application code, sensitive data, and service and user accounts from threats.

OAuth is an authorization protocol that allows apps to securely request user data without requiring the user to enter their sensitive credentials (e.g., API keys, application keys, etc.). Datadog API-based data integrations now fully support OAuth.

Organizations are rapidly migrating their infrastructure to the cloud, enabling them to modernize their applications and deliver more value to their customers. But this transition creates significant security risks that they may be unable to keep pace with. For example, cyber attacks on cloud resources are becoming more sophisticated and prevalent. Additionally, organizations often rely on legacy, disjointed security tools that don’t integrate well with cloud-native infrastructure.

In the cloud, securing identities and workloads is both paramount and complex. Inventories of AWS customer security breaches help us learn from publicly disclosed incidents—but until now, not much concrete data has been shared around the usage of security mechanisms that could have helped prevent these incidents. For this report, we examined real-world data from a sample of more than 600 organizations and thousands of AWS accounts that use the Datadog Cloud Security Platform.

Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC) is an AWS service that enables you to launch AWS resources within your own virtual network. Because you can deploy VPCs in separate regions and other VPC components themselves are deployable across different Availability Zones, VPC-hosted environments tend to be highly available and more secure.

In part 1 of this series, we looked at the common components of an Amazon VPC including CIDR blocks, subnets, firewalls, and route tables. We also looked at approaches for how to configure those components securely.