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As we enter 2023, both security and digital transformation efforts (e.g. cloud migration) continue to be important priorities for organizations. This combination brings huge challenges for IT teams, who are not only required to facilitate major digital changes and increase developer productivity but also ensure that this transformation is secure by default. When using AWS in particular, it’s challenging to understand how to strike this balance between accelerated cloud growth and security.

Recently, Device Authority’s CTO James Penney recorded a podcast with Axeda Co-Founder and CTO Jim Hansen. Full disclosure: I was the first Salesperson hired by Axeda in 2001 and I can personally attest that at the time many companies thought we were out of our minds! In the early days, Axeda’s biggest challenge was getting machine makers to use this new thing called the Internet to remotely manage their high value assets in the field.

Have you ever heard the saying that the greatest benefit of the cloud is that limitless resources can be spun-up with just a few clicks of the mouse? If so, you would be best served by forgetting that saying altogether. Just because cloud resources can be spun-up with a few clicks of the mouse does not mean that they should be. Rather, prior to launching anything in the cloud, careful consideration and planning are a necessity.

Many organizations today develop, build and deploy cloud native applications that utilize infrastructure and services offered by cloud computing providers like AWS, Azure or Google Cloud Platform (GCP). This trend highlights a critical consideration for organizations — how to secure applications, infrastructures and data in cloud-native systems.

Amazon Elastic File System (EFS) is a simple, scalable and fully managed file storage service to support the storage and throughput needs of your Kubernetes applications. Amazon EFS is designed to be highly available and durable, however your EFS data can still be prone to data loss, data corruption, and have compliance issues. Amazon EFS Backup and Restore of data helps protect against data loss due to hardware failures, accidental deletion, ransomware attacks, or other types of disasters.

Microservices offer significant advantages compared to monoliths. You can scale the development more easily and have precise control over scaling infrastructure. Additionally, the ability to make many minor updates and incremental rollouts significantly reduces the time to market. Despite these benefits, microservices architecture presents a problem — the inability to access its services externally. Fortunately, an API gateway can resolve this issue.