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Most conversations about cloud security focus on techniques that can help secure almost any type of cloud service — such as using Identity and Access Management (IAM) policies to restrict access or configuring cloud networks to mitigate risks.
But there’s another way to approach cloud security: by choosing the most secure type of cloud services for deploying workloads. While implementing the right types of cloud security controls across services is also critical, selecting the most secure cloud services for a given workload is also essential.
What Are the Different Types of Cloud Services?
When I talk about choosing from among varying cloud services, I’m referring to the different categories of cloud services, such as:
Managed cloud servers, available through services like Amazon EC2 and Azure Virtual Machines.
Containers, which can be deployed in self-managed fashion or via fully managed services like Fargate or Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE).
I’m not, for the record, talking about higher-order categories of clouds — IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS. Nor am I thinking of public versus private versus hybrid cloud. These are cloud deployment models or architectures rather than specific types of services that you might encounter
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